Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:28:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@enc.edu> To: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: CDRom w/NFS access (?) crashes system Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950824170445.20365B-100000@alpha.enc.edu>
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Howdy,
I have yet another problem. :-) Sorry to dump on this list, but I'm
trying to pull off quite a bit with our beloved OS...
Anyway, one of my systems looks like this:
P/90 CPU, 32 megs RAM. 2.0.5-RELEASE FBSD
NCR 83c825 SCSI PCI controller
COMPEX ENET-32 PCI ethernet (DEC chipset)
ISA SVGA card (ATI, yuck, soon to replace)
1 gig Conner SCSI-2 drive
NEC 4x SCSI CDROM drive
SoundBlaster 16 (adaptec SCSI controller set to IRQ 9 - not used)
Ok... I was running Xwindows and had lots of xterms open and telnet sessions
to various places. "Top" claimed that swap was around 12%.
Both the hard drive and the CDROM are on the NCR controller. Periodicly,
espcially (it seems) when I use the cdrom, I see these messages:
/kernel: ncr0 targ 6?: ERROR (81:40) (8-28-0) (8/13) @ (1008:0).
/kernel: reg: da 10 c0 13 47 8 6 f 1 8 6 28 80 0 8 0.
/kernel: ncr0: restart (fatal error).
/kernel: sd0(ncr0:6:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @f09a3e00.
/kernel: sd0(ncr0:6:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @f08b5400.
/kernel: cd0(ncr0:2:0): COMMAND FAILED (9 ff) @f08b5a00.
/kernel: ncr0: timeout ccb=f08b5a00 (skip)
/kernel: ncr0: reset by timeout.
/kernel: sd0(ncr0:6:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.
/kernel: sd0(ncr0:6:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0
sd0(ncr0:6:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred field
replaceable unit: 14
/kernel: , retries:3
This didn't make me too happy, but everything seemed to work OK, mostly.
Today, I was running Xwindows and had lots of xterms open and telnet
sessions to various places. "Top" claimed that swap was around 12%.
I mounted a cd and exported the mountpoint via NFS.
Several other systems NFS-mounted the cdrom and started chewing away at it.
(DOS-boxes installing windows off of the CDROM, actually :-).
All seemed well. I even noted, impressed, that top showed that the
nfsiod processes where using virtually NO cpu time!
And then, with no warning, my machine resets! No panic messages or anything.
Just a blank screen with warm fuzzy BIOS messages appearing. :-(
Anyhow, I feel quite sure that not everything is as it should be and was
wondering if any of you brave chaps had anything to say about my tale.
thanks,
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Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu
"I read somewhere to learn is to
Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that
Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X
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