Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:27:27 +0000 From: se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump and 2.1R problem?? Message-ID: <199604120927.LAA24408@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> "Dump and 2.1R problem??" (Apr 11, 21:19)
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On Apr 11, 21:19, Keith Mitchell wrote: } Subject: Dump and 2.1R problem?? } Are there any known problems with dump and 2.1R. } } Recently, I performed a level 0 dump on a 2.1R system (ALL UFS) and } got input/output (possibly hardware) errors. There were also some errors } about the controller card being dead (NCR53C810). This is most likely a hardware problem. What kind of disk drive is that ? Can you try upgrading to /sys/pci/ncr.c from the -stable sources ? (The error handling and recovery code is improved in that version.) } The only thing that actually made it in syslog were the following: } } vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 0 failure } swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 456, size 4096, error 5 } } etc. } } The interesting thing was that everything would work fine in single user } mode, but not in multi-user (even though no one else was online). That's surprising, since there are no driver visible differences between single and multi-user mode ... } Sorry I can't be more specific here, but the errors scrolled two quickly } and once the error occured I could not do anything with the system. } Every command I tried resulted in an input/ouput error. Please try to stop the output using the SCROLL LOCK key on your keyboard (as early as possible) and report the first error message (use the PAGE UP key to scroll back). 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 <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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