From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 09:23:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA14508 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 09:23:07 -0800 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA14480 ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 09:22:55 -0800 Message-Id: <199512021722.JAA14480@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help!!!! In-reply-to: Your message of "02 Dec 1995 22:10:03 +0800." <49pmnr$rlf$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 09:22:54 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Just by coincidence, the people that described their hardware were running >EISA and 284X controllers. Guess what? There was a major EISA rewrite >about the same time as John committed his benign Async changes.... Actually, I was able to reproduce it on a asystem with a 2940 before any of my eisaconf/aic7xxx changes went into the tree (it was the last machine I was to test my changes on before committing them). There was also a report from someone with a Buslogic VLB card... From the two hangs I got on my EISA machine (running my new eisaconf code) that I analized with DG, the flags on the buffer that the system was sleeping on where in an inconsistant state. Neither the eisaconf code nor the aic7xxx code munge buffers on a personal level, so I don't know how they could cause this type of problem. Anything is possible though. :) I haven't seen a getblk hang on my machine for more than a week now. Perhaps the problem has been inadvertantly fixed??? >-Peter -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================