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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: PR Submitted for vm_object_deallocate() panic 
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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >
> >Hi...
> >
> >	I just submitted a bug report for a vm_object_deallocate() 
> >panic that just occurred on my machine, but I'm curious if anyone else
> >is having problems with getting a core dump under -stable?
> >
> >	I'm using DDB to allow me to get a trace of the crash before it
> >reboots, and after typing panic at the ddb> prompt, it hangs while trying
> >to dump:
> >
> >dumping to dev 401, offset 172032
> >dump 16 <-- hangs right here indefinitely
> >
> >	The result is I get no core dump, and can't get any better debugging
> >information out of the kernel then a trace :(
> 
> This is with an aic7xxx adapter right?  The problem is that When I brought
> the -current driver back to -stable a while back, I removed the poll code
> from the driver to fix a different problem not realizing that this would
> break crash dumps.  I've restored the poll code in -current and I will
> bring that back to -stable sometime this week hopefully.
>
	Nope, its an NCR SCSI controller...aic7xxx is adaptec, no?


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