From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 20 22:50: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4ACF37B50C for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id WAA86702; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:50:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003210650.WAA86702@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Subject: Re: kern/17504: Another Micropolis Synchronize Cache Problem Reply-To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/17504; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: satherrl@vpn.dssrg.curtin.edu.au Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/17504: Another Micropolis Synchronize Cache Problem Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:48:31 -0700 On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:16:06 -0800, satherrl@vpn.dssrg.curtin.edu.au wrote: > >Release: 3.4-STABLE > >Environment: > FreeBSD hagaar.itssa.curtin.FreeBSD hagaar.itssa.curtin.edu.au 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Mon Mar 20 13:47:32 WST 2000 root@hagaar.itssa.curtin.edu.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/HAGAAR i386 > edu.au 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Mon Mar 20 13:47:32 WST 2000 root@hagaar.itssa.curtin.edu.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/HAGAAR i386 > > >Description: > Machine hangs with Micropolis drives. Using a 6 way ccd hanging off a > Pentium - simple mtree -c -K md5digest , newfs etc etc will stop the > machine. shutdown -r now, freezes just after sync disks done. > > All drives are old 2.8 GB model 1936 This sounds like two separate problems: - newfs "stops" the machine - yet you are till able to do a shutdown -r now, which causes the machine to freeze when it hits the cache sync Can you elaborate a little bit on the problem? Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message