Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:27:27 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPDATE2: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available. Message-ID: <199903080727.IAA00174@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903072046070.2739-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> from Steve Price at "Mar 7, 1999 9: 0:42 pm"
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It seems Steve Price wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > # > # >From the context I've seen, the 'ufs_dirbad' panic is almost certainly > # due to corrupted disk input. > > I definitely can't rule that out as a possibility, but it does make > it difficult to explain how the old driver works on this machine. > I'm typing this message from the machine in question. Among other > things it is building in the neighborhood of twenty ports, recompiling > the JDK for the fifteen millionth time :/, CVSup'ing, running a bunch > of rxvt's, and generally working its rump off without even the > slightest hint of corrupted or flaky disk. > > All that aside I'm willing to look closer into the possibility of > this being the problem. How does one go about obtaining a copy of > the raw disklabels? And once I have them how do I verify them for > correctness? Hmm, the only thing I can come up with is that either your disk doesn't support multible sectors, or fails to do 32bit transfers. There is an if 0 around the 32/16 bit transfers try reversing it, and then try to comment out the lines that does the multisector setup. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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