From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 4 3:51:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ada.eu.org (marvin.enst.fr [137.194.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D015537B7DE for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@inf.enst.fr) Received: from antinea.enst.fr (antinea.enst.fr [137.194.160.145]) by ada.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035BD190A8; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:51:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by antinea.enst.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2FDF9506; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:51:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:51:17 +0200 To: John Hay Cc: Soren Schmidt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA & 82C596 bug in 4.0-RELEASE? References: <200004040645.IAA94288@freebsd.dk> <200004041019.MAA65929@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 +0200 From: Samuel Tardieu Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-WWW: http://www.inf.enst.fr/~tardieu/ X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools X-ICQ: 21547599 Message-Id: <2000-04-04-12-51-17+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message