From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 09:14:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA17135 for current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA17125 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-43.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by FileServ1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA04608 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:13:35 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA03186; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:13:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:13:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608081613.SAA03186@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> From: Stefan Esser To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncr dead message In-Reply-To: <199608061121.NAA09546@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199608061121.NAA09546@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph P. Kukulies writes: > I found this in my /var/log/messages: (2.2-current of Aug 1st) > > Aug 2 10:29:13 isdn /kernel: ncr0:0: ERROR (80:4) (8-0-0) (8/13) @ (b30:c0000001). This is most probably a transient problem: dstat=0x80: DMA FIFO empty (that's ok) sist =0x04: Unexpected Disconnect (but that's a problem ...) The ATN line is asserted, and the last bus phase appears to have been a DATA OUT. > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: script cmd = 800c0006 > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: reg: da 00 80 13 47 08 00 1f 01 08 80 00 80 00 0e 02. > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: ncr0: restart (ncr dead ?). I'm not sure why this hung the system, but it might have been due to a lost strobe ... > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: ncr0: restart (ncr dead ?). > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - async pageout failed; blkno 9984, size 8192, error 5 > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: swap_pager_finish: I/O error, clean of page 916000 failed > Aug 2 10:29:26 isdn /kernel: swap_pager_finish: I/O error, clean of page 913000 failed I'm not sure what the swap pager does in that case. Is it fatal, or will the operation just be retried next time the page is found eligible for page out ? > It was a single occurance and maybe a transient failure. Anyway, I'm > reporting it here just fyi. Well, it doesn't look like a driver problem. Regards, STefan