Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 07:45:31 -0600 From: swise@austin.ibm.com (Jean-Steveau Wise) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: swise@austin.ibm.com (Jean-Steveau Wise) Subject: Re: ATAPI 4x cdrom hang Message-ID: <9602051345.AA28188@vikings.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: (Your message of Sun, 04 Feb 96 18:39:31 PST.) <22309.823487971@time.cdrom.com>
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jkh@time.cdrom.com says: | > I've enabled the debugger. I can enter it via ctrl-alt-esc. However, | > when I reproduce the problem, I cannot enter the debugger. Also pings | > into the machine via an ethernet IF stops after it's hung. Soooo, my | > guess is that somewhere we're looping with all interrupts disabled. | > I'll now try and put some breakpoints in the ATAPI driver to understand | > where it's hanging... | | Yeah, that's about your only recourse, sorry! :-( Good luck! I've learned very little about what's happening by breaking in the various atapi routines... I also enabled DIAGNOSTIC and no change in behavior. I compiled the ATAPI driver with DEBUG and I get a lot of printf's when the thing takes an interrupt. The last thing I see is the driver taking an interrupt, then the system hangs. THere's nothing strange about the interrupt as far as I can tell. Question: Is it possible that the driver's leaving interrupts disabled? On AIX we have debug code in the system call routines to jump into the debugger if we're exiting a system call with either ints disabled or a kernel lock held. I cannot tell from the source how to program such an assertion in FreeBSD. I guess I could add such assertions to the sys call exit and SW interrupt exit? | > ok and begin booting, but would fail during boot process. I think the | > kernel is assuming the root volume is on controller one/disk one or two? | | No, don't think so.. Is the kernel below cylinder 1024? Yes. I've since moved my 2 drives to the first controller, and put the CDROM on the second, and everything works fine. I need this system up and running, so I won't continue debugging this one as it requires re-installing. During the boot process, the system displays this message after probing the busses: changing root device to wd1a Now, even if I install onto wd2a, this message still says wd1a. At this point the system complains that there's no root fs and bails. However, I think it's just not looking at wd2a even though it just booted the kernel from there...does this make sense? Thanx, Stevo.help
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