From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 22 01:31:06 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA16536 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 22 May 1995 01:31:06 -0700 Received: from relay3.UU.NET (relay3.UU.NET [192.48.96.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA16523 ; Mon, 22 May 1995 01:31:00 -0700 Received: from cygnus.com by relay3.UU.NET with ESMTP id QQyquk12780; Mon, 22 May 1995 04:30:56 -0400 Received: from localhost.cygnus.com (rtl.cygnus.com [140.174.1.2]) by cygnus.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA12252; Mon, 22 May 1995 01:30:52 -0700 Message-Id: <199505220830.BAA12252@cygnus.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Peter Dufault , sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan), bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 1995 13:39:51 PDT." <27949.801088791@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 01:30:52 -0700 From: Torbjorn Granlund Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Now my machine begins to work. And I didn't cheat and downgraded to Linux... :-) I swapped my Buslogic 964C for an Adaptec 2940, and downloaded the latest snapshot. I got one panic during install (the to me all too familiar "page fault while in kernel mode") but since that the machine has stayed up. SCSI transfers now go at 10 MB/s according to the driver. However, I only get about 5.4 MB/s in practice for large file transfers. The disk documentation claims that the drive can do 9.7 MB/s on the outermost tracks. It is too early to say that the system now works reliably. But it certainly crashes less than it used to, with a plain 2.0 kernel. I wish to thank you all for your timely help! I would probably have had less problems had I not bought the disk Jordan warned us for, the motherboard Rodney says is garbage, and the SCSI controller you warn people from using... Hey, it could have been worse, I could have had a broken frame buffer! (About the Buslogic card: I briefly ran Linux on the system today, and it kept warning about "buslogic: interrupt recieved but no mail sent". So the problems with that board are certainly not FreeBSD-specific.) Torbjörn