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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:51:17 +0200
From:      Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
To:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc:        Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA & 82C596 bug in 4.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <2000-04-04-12-51-17%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200004041019.MAA65929@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>; from jhay@mikom.csir.co.za on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 12:19:03PM %2B0200
References:  <200004040645.IAA94288@freebsd.dk> <200004041019.MAA65929@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>

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On  4/04, John Hay wrote:

| I have a machine that can be trashed. The trouble is that it cannot
| install 4.x or -current because of the problem with the ata driver.
| During installation it just go in a loop during newfs and keep on
| spitting out errors.

You are lucky, you go further than I do :) It stops after printing
"Probing devices", with the HD led on, on my Compaq Armada V300. Using DDB,
I can see that sysinstall is in bioread state. I haven't had time to continue
serial remote debugging yet, and I do not know where to break in the kernel.

A question for hackers: from within GDB, you can call subprograms on the
target. Is there any "helper" subprogram in the kernel that can print
a list of processes (as in DDB) and display the context of a particular
process given its PID?



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