From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 21 17:25:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.kpi.com.au (www.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B466537BE6D for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnsa@kpi.com.au) Received: from kpi.com.au (localhost.kpi.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by www.kpi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21579; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:24:28 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from johnsa@kpi.com.au) Message-ID: <3900F182.5A010AD0@kpi.com.au> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:25:38 +1000 From: Andrew Johns Organization: KPI Logistics Pty. Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jarrod Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncontrolable Rebooting 4.0-R References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There have been several issues with certain UDMA controllers (some of the VIA motherboards IIRC). Check back through the lists. I believe the solution was to disable UDMA on those drives via /etc/rc I also believe that a fix has been created and put in 4.0-STABLE but I see that you're running -RELEASE so you would not have it in your system, yet :) HTH Jarrod wrote: > > Hi, > > Using a 4.0-R base system with IPFIREWALL compiled into the kernel. > Around every second day, this machine reboots for no reason. Im not at > work when the machine reboots or I am and im too late. No error messages > appear in /var/log/messages so I cant explain why. Is there any way of > dumping messages sent to the console to a /var/log/console file so I can > flick through it? > > On another matter that may or may not be related, when the machine boots > up, the following appears at the bottom of the screen and dmesg. > > ad0: 4125MB [8940/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: READ command timeout - resetting > ata0-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA > ata0-master: timeout waiting for command=ef s=00 e=00 > ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode > ata0: resetting devices .. done > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > It wasnt properly dismounted as the machine has rebooted thismorning. > This reboot was quick, printing everything above, on other ocassions the > 'ad0: READ command timeout - resetting' flashes on the screen 750+ times > (according to the 'last message repeated xxx times' in /var/log/messages). > > Whats the cause of all this? > > Cheers, > > Jarrod > > -- > Jarrod Sayers (hostmaster@mtloftyhistsoc.asn.au) > > Information Technology Manager > Mount Lofty Districts Historical Society, Inc. > http://www.mtloftyhistsoc.asn.au/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ---------------------\ Andrew Johns BSc. \ Principal Consultant \ KPI Logistics Pty Ltd \ mailto:johnsa@kpi.com.au \ http://www.kpi.com.au \ How do I set this laser printer to stun? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message