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Date:      Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:02:06 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser), grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD3.0-BETA crash! 
Message-ID:  <199810060302.UAA01806@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:08:20 MDT." <199810052008.OAA27385@panzer.plutotech.com> 

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> > devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count is < 0!
> 
> There are three possible culprits in your system: the floppy driver, the
> IDE disk driver and the IDE CD driver.  Which one were you using when the
> devstat messages appeared?
> 
> Whichever one it was, someone who understands it (Mike?) should probably
> take a look at the driver and see whether we're getting transactions
> completed twice, or transactions that get completed, but were never
> started.

A really good start would be for the "HELP" message to include the 
*name* of the device for which the busy count was going < 0.  8)

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