From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 1 12: 6:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.shell-server.com (marvin.shell-server.com [216.206.242.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA8E37B66C for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 12:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by marvin.shell-server.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e91J6jE40399; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:06:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bsd@shell-server.com) X-Authentication-Warning: marvin.shell-server.com: bsd owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:06:45 -0500 (CDT) From: BSD To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another 4.1-S panic (full report) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001001132645.00cae340@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > This looks very similar to some crashing I had months back. An older drive > didn't seem to like it at all and stopped using it for that drive. Panics > continued and removing the drive physically didn't help. Turning off > softupdates for all drives did eliminate the panic and later commits at > some point fixed the problem and it could be turned back on, even on the > drive it didn't like. No need to recompile, just 'tunefs -n disable' worked. So...given these later commits, I should be fine with softupdates now, no? > >cpu I686_CPU # aka Pentium Pro(tm) > >options NO_F00F_HACK > > The F00F problem is only with Pentiums. Exactly why I disable the work-around code with NO_F00F_HACK option :) > >options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8192 # number of history buffer lines > Rather large and why one would need to go back so many lines. Good point here though. I haven't had the best of luck with the syscons driver, it seems very touchy about its options. There, deleted all syscons options. Defaults are wonderful. :) 2 reboots from now we'll see if these changes failed to do anthing vs the rebooting problem. --Bart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message