From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 16:35:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D23E37B422 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA47053; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:05:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:05:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dchance@valuedata.net, Matt Thomas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Jumping to conclusions (was: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98) Message-ID: <20000821090503.C39585@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000820092317.23073.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net> <20000820092317.23073.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000820092317.23073.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net>; from dchance@valuedata.net on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:23:17AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've already addressed this question, but now I see the original message to which Matt referred. On Sunday, 20 August 2000 at 2:23:17 -0700, dchance@valuedata.net wrote: >> I have been having a problem for quite some time now with FreeBSD bombing >> out with a Page Fault 12 error in the kernel. I have been reading the > > Another guy and I have been having similar issues > with our MB's, my turns out to be a problem with DMA > and the VIA chipset. Note here that dchance says "similar issues", not the same problem. That's possible. > It's currently a known issue and is being worked on. Hopefully it > will be fixed soon. FWIW, my box reboots at least 2-3 times a day > and its supposed to be our network server :P....has VERY little load > (nat, ipfw). > > Also, the modifying part sounds like you have antivirus > check enabled in your bios. might want to check that > out :). On Sunday, 20 August 2000 at 14:17:17 -0400, Matt Thomas wrote: > Ahh this sounds like the answer I have been looking for. It may have been the answer you were looking for, but it's not necessarily the answer you need. > Everyone has said it is hardware so I moved the box to a different > motherboard and processor. No, I said it wasn't possible to determine the problem from the meagre evidence you've supplied. > And wouldn't you know it, the other motherboard that was being used > for the machine was a VIA chipset. I had noticed problems with DMA > for awhile, so much so that to get a hard-drive installed with UDMA > 66 I had to completely turn DMA off just to get it to do a newfs. This is, of course, additional information. > I guess I just need to go and get another MotherBoard so this > PIII-550 doesn't go to waste and I can get off the PII-350. You might just be lucky and find that that's really the problem. But if so, you found it by coincidence. It's just as possible that you'll have these problems again with the new mother board. > I would like to thank everyone for all the excellent information > they have provided, I really got alot of useful info from > everything, thank you. It doesn't seem so. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message