Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:27:08 -0600 (CST) From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com> To: rlenk@widget.xmission.com (Ron Lenk) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-( Message-ID: <m0tu68K-000IDUC@venus.mcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199603052017.NAA06046@widget.xmission.com> from "Ron Lenk" at Mar 5, 96 01:17:04 pm
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> > > Without warning today, the recurrent collapse of -stable with "panic: > > inconsistent xxx queue" managed to trash my root file-system beyond recovery > > (/etc et al) and a substantial proportion of anything vaguely near a > > file-subsystem root directory (i.e. /var, /usr and /home are all separate > > file-systems and all were damaged to varying degrees). I presume that this > > was just particularly bad timing as there was significant activity on all of > > them at that moment (of the order of ~60 transfers second). > > Well, I can tell you that you're not alone in seeing these particular > problems with -stable and the 2842. I've seen the same types of panics > and hang conditions with -stable for the last two months. ( since the > import of the new ahc driver in Jan ) Fortunately, however, I have been > using a 2.1-RELEASE kernel without incident ( up 15 days right now ), > so I haven't seen any spectacular filesystem damage. I have given up on 27xx EISA adapters under FreeBSD. I get hangs of different kinds, and a few panics. 1742s and the PCI boards seem to be fine so far. So long as the PCI situation holds, we can live with a broken EISA card for *new* machines. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity Modem: [+1 312 248-0900] | T1 from $600 monthly; speeds to DS-3 available Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1] | 21 Chicagoland POPs, ISDN, 28.8, much more Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ ISDN - Get it here TODAY! | Home of Chicago's only FULL Clarinet feed!
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