From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 21:25:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27391 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27364 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:25:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) id WAA00802; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:25:00 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199810060425.WAA00802@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD3.0-BETA crash! In-Reply-To: <199810060302.UAA01806@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 5, 98 08:02:06 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:25:00 -0600 (MDT) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, joe@pavilion.net, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote... > > > 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) Done. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message