Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:25:49 -0600 From: denon <denon@denon.cx> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 and instabilities with Buslogic SCSI drivers in VMWare Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20031208152409.09cfed60@mail.jon.com> In-Reply-To: <20031207134057.Y7085@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031207022844.066a9008@mail.jon.com> <20031207134057.Y7085@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Responses inline: At 03:41 PM 12/7/2003, you wrote: >On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, denon wrote: > > > We've been doing more work with VMware and FreeBSD lately. Overall it's > > been going well, but we have a machine that's giving me grief, and I'm a > > bit concerned. > > > > It's running 4.8-Release, with a single virtual SCSI drive. It's been > > running fine for months, but as of recently, it's started locking up. When > > it locks up, this is what's in the messages: > > /kernel: (da0:bt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xca993340 - timed out > > /kernel: bt0: btdone - Attempt to free non-active BCCB 0xca9933c0 > >I wonder if the vmware environment is bug-for-bug compatible with the old >buslogic hardware :-) Sure seems it .. though it was stable for a long time, so I don't know .. >I suspect this is a bug in vmware, where the emulated driver is suffering >from long-term corruption. 43-day bug, perhaps? > >Does stopping and starting VMware clear this up? Nope, apparently not .. I tried and its happened again today. Seems to happen about twice a day, but no pattern to it that I see.. -d
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