From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 19:59:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11776 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11744 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 19:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01806; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:02:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810060302.UAA01806@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" cc: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser), grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.0-BETA crash! In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:08:20 MDT." <199810052008.OAA27385@panzer.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:02:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message