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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:06:56 +0100
From:      Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
To:        Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver
Message-ID:  <20011212160656.GD46858@zigman.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011212161812.A5604@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
References:  <20011130203259.GA35649@zigman.2y.net> <20011201024150.X71809-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <20011204143520.GA67323@zigman.2y.net> <20011205004727.A27740@ldc.ro> <20011212143652.GA74537@zigman.2y.net> <20011212161812.A5604@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:18:12PM +0100, Volker Stolz wrote:
> I have the same problems (running on non-SMP works), but I kept quiet
> because I cannot rule out hardware failure, yet. Memory is okay, but even
> W2k crashes when (presumably) starting the 2nd CPU.
> 
> BSD will wreak havoc to the filesystem under even minor load, throwing
> diverse signals to "make world", e.g. 6,10,11 before crashing in fs code
> entirely, even resulting in soft-update inconsistencies :-/
> IIRC I tried both DMA & PIO mode and two different controllers, I'm
> currently planning to give the CPUs two a Linux-friend with the same
> board (Gigabyte 6BXD).
> Number crunching will *not* cause errors, though...

Exactly, only disk intensive tasks cause crashes. (IDE drives, not SCSI) I'm
not sure why this has occured, the server was just fine before when it was
running 4.3-STABLE... :\

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