Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:09:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT crashes Message-ID: <XFMail.970729170958.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970729164336.938Q-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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Hi Jaye Mathisen; On 29-Jul-97 you wrote: > > So tell me what you need? Not much I can tell you. The system was idle, > except for a CVSup of -current. > > In the middle of the cvsup, it just stopped, with that error message, and > was sitting in ddb>. > > I tried panic for grins, and it said "syncing disks", but never saw any > disk activity. I need to see things like the DPT options you configured the kernel with, firmware level, controller model, RAID configuration, motherboard type, slot number in the machine, did you manage to re-boot the machine? did it happen again? Versipon of the driver, etc. The error message you report is a catchall at the end of the case statement. IOW, something we really know nothing about. If it happens regularly, you may want to activate few options in the kernel, to see if we can catch the error in a better defined light. > Waited several minutes, rebooted, and it came up. > > > BTW, the -current patch in /crash doesn't seem to apply to a real > -current, or at least, it won't on mine, while the 2.2.2 patch applies > fine. By definition, -current is a moving target. We make no particular effort here to track it with patches. Once we put the driver in the kernel, we will be obliged to update it. The mechanisms to do so are in place. 2.2 is a ``stable'' release and API's are not supposed to change. Another reason for the -current ``neglect'' is that we anticipate a major re-write of the SCSI layer in 3.0, and with it a major work on the DPT driver. We simply do not have time to track all three threads. > > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > > Hi Jaye Mathisen; On 28-Jul-97 you wrote: > > > > > > > > > Just died with 2.2.2 with DPT: Undocumented error" during a CVSUP > > > of the world from my local cvsup mirror. > > > > Nurse: Dr. The patient is sick. > > Dr.: Give him two aspirins and call me in the morning. > > Lawyer: Good! > > > > Undocumented error is exactly that. An error which i do not know what > it > > is. i could guess all day long but would prefer more data :-) > > > > Simon > > >
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