From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 14:32:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA28905 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:32:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from twwells.com (twwells.com [199.79.159.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28893 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by twwells.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0uTb2z-00017xC; Tue, 11 Jun 96 17:32 EDT To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Subject: adaptec disk controllers and 2.1-RELEASE Date: 11 Jun 1996 17:32:18 -0400 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4pkol2$pce@twwells.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.twwells.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm using an adaptec 2940 on my news server. I've been told that the occasional panics (something about scsi bus timeouts?) have been resolved by a -STABLE release; however, when I installed the first of them (well, partially: I swapped kernels and /bin), I got a flood of complaints that my server was failing. You know how customer complaints are; even when the information is right to hand, you can't rely on them transmitting it. So I have no idea if the nnrps stopped sending or if connections were just getting arbitrarily dropped or what. Anyway, I went back to -RELEASE; those crashes only happen once every few weeks! I looked at the code and it doesn't look at all like an easy job to retrofit the ahc driver changes into the release kernel. The question is: is it known what changes are needed to eliminate the panics? Or, is there a reasonable way to add those changes to my release kernel?