From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 3 10:25:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA28703 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA28693 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:24:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA02901 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org); Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:22:42 +0100 Message-Id: <199601031822.AA02901@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:22:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: Heikki Suonsivu "kern/929: NCR support broken?" (Jan 3, 12:31) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: hsu@clinet.fi Subject: Re: kern/929: NCR support broken? Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Jan 3, 12:31, Heikki Suonsivu wrote: } Subject: kern/929: NCR support broken? } } >Number: 929 } >Category: kern } >Synopsis: scatter/gather failed } Jan 3 11:18:53 katiska /kernel: ncr?: scatter/gather failed (residue=814260224) This is a bug in the higher level code. A request to read 800MB of data has been issued, but there was no way to setup a scatter/gather table for that transfer (and I doubt you had had the RAM to stuff away the data read :) I don't know what issues these read calls, but it happens with other controller cards as well, and might be a VM problem ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se