From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 17:27:14 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 17:27:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10D337B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA12755; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:27:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA00168; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:27:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00162; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:27:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:27:06 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: trini0 Cc: Co-op , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Old AHA-2940 problem [was: kernel panics in 4.2] In-Reply-To: <3A2BDDCF.B31CAB17@optonline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'll have a crash dump and a backtrace for this problem if anyone wants to see it. I have a machine waiting to crash when I hit it with some disk activity. It has DDB in it's kernel, and I have it set to dump to a swap partition so I can look at the crash dump too. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, trini0 wrote: > Please let us know if this can be fixed. I too have this problem. So > what do you guys think. Should we get rid of that 2940 card now??? > Thanks > > > Big Thanks Justin. I got a panic with the 4.2 ISO CD, and will > > try to duplicate it and write down the crash info. I could perhaps > > try certain things here if necessary to get any info you need. > > I appreciate the time you took to look at this. > > > > -Co-op > > > > "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > > > > At the point that the kernel takes over control of the 2940, the BIOS > > > should be irrelevant. I'll see if I can scare up a 2940 of that > > > vintage and reproduce your problem. The probable cause is that we, > > > at some point during initialization, reference a piece of SCB ram > > > that has never been written to. > > > > > > -- > > > Justin > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > > _____________________________ > | trini0 | > | | > / ) | Systems Administrator | > / / | Network Engineer | > ( ( | email ==> | > (((\ \> |/ ) trini0@optonline.net | > (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| > \ / > \ _/ > / / > / / > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message