From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 10 17:45:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06667 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA06646 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yYgh8-0004ZO-00; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:43:54 -0700 Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 17:43:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: The Hermit Hacker cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console w/ SCSI hangs... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 May 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Is there any way of rebooting using the serial console when a SCSI bus > hang happens? On a Sparc system, the serial console is hardware driven, > not software, so you can break down to the prom and reboot that way... I think there is a serial console break feature that can put into the debugger, from which you can reboot. Or, you could just use a remote power cycle device. > With the SCSI bus hang in mind...what is the ETA on getting the CAM > drivers finally integrated? :) You must mean the ahc SCSI bus hang, as the SCSI _never_ hanges when using a DPT controller. > Marc G. Fournier > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message