From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 31 2:29: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aifhs8.alcatel.fr (una104.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D8937B479; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 02:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs8.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id LAA21462; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:28:50 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id C1256989.003991C9 ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:28:48 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: sos@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:24:47 +0100 Subject: ATA woes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Following your advice, I have installed a recent snapshot (4.1-20001029-STABLE) on one of my broken PCs (I've followed UPDATING with the now classical make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installXXX ...) I have let this machine run "make buildworld" during all of the night, and I still have got a freeze of the box (as the console gets redirected to a serial port which was not connected at that time, I do not have the error message <-(( - nevertheless, the symptoms are clear : the compilation has stopped in the middle of the make buildworld, and the machine was completely frozen). I have gone back to PIO mode, and I'm trying to avoid disk acces as much as possible, so this situation is not critical. However, I would like to help and understand what happens : what can I do to investigate on the matter ? (are there "debugging hooks" in the ata drivers ?) I have two boxes which can be dedicated to this kind of tests. Cheers TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message