Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:27:25 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>, Paul Haddad <paul@pth.com> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Another current crash (cvs-cur.6183 Message-ID: <20000403132725.B8685@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031057070.9381-100000@localhost>; from Nick Hibma on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:57:46AM %2B0100 References: <008501bf9b84$ad365270$0bac2ac0@pth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.20.0004031057070.9381-100000@localhost>
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[formatting recovered] On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:57:46AM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Paul Haddad wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Christopher Masto wrote: > > > I've been playing around with one of those iopener things and got > > > myself into a state I thought I could get out of with the help of a > > > USB Zip drive. Unfortunately, upon purchasing and connecting one, > > > I discovered that I can't access it without a panic, which I > > > point out here on the chance it's also related. > > > > Boy I wish I had read this message before I went out and bought a > > USB zip drive... I'm in the exact same situation IOPENER with 4.0 > > installed and screwed up to a point where I can boot but not mount > > the sandisk drive. I figured that I would get a zip drive and > > mount it instead. Anyways if you found some way around this please > > let me know, otherwise I've got to make another trip out and get a > > SuperDisk instead... > > > > BTW What state are you in? Mine will boot, but gets to the point > > where it tries to mount the sandisk and panics with a ffs_write > > panic. Booting in single user doesn't help. > > Where are you guys now as far as USB drives are concerned? I've been > looking a lot at the driver lately and would like to hear about any > problems you have. Well, as for the i-opener, I've gotten mine working. See http://www.kenseglerdesigns.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=technical&Post=115 I did not have a problem with a panic mounting the sandisk, I just didn't have a /boot/loader on it so I couldn't load my mfsroot.gz. I was eventually able to find a Y-E Data floppy drive and use it as a root filesystem by entering "ufs:/dev/da0" at the mount root prompt. If a 4.0 kernel is on there, I don't know what to say, as I don't know what worked at that point. SuperDisk is certainly out of the question, since it's not there even now. Regarding USB drives, I have been using the Orb "2.2GB" USB-SCSI version with some success. There do seem to be some serious filesystem corruption problems, but I haven't had time to determine where they're coming from. I often get corruption-related panics while trying to install packages, and fsck always finds a number of serious problems and removes about a dozen files (from /usr/lib mostly, so I'll eventually lose something important). When I download something large, such as XFree86, the file's checksum comes out wrong and gzip fails with errors. I need to have a few hours free to try it on a different machine, with different media, etc. to try to narrow this down. I have also been getting kue lockups, so there are a lot of possibilities. I really haven't played with the thing too much, partly because it's very slow and takes a good 15 minutes to fsck every time I crash it. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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