From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 08:53:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA29584 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mole.mole.org (marmot.mole.org [204.216.57.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA29561 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mole.mole.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA14851; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:53:31 GMT Received: from meerkat.mole.org(206.197.192.110) by mole.mole.org via smap (V1.3) id sma014843; Thu Jul 11 15:53:10 1996 Received: (from mrm@localhost) by meerkat.mole.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA04457; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:53:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:53:10 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" Message-Id: <199607111553.IAA04457@meerkat.mole.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sameer@c2.net Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940W and kernel panics Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We've recently added a 3940W and some wide disks to our > newsserver, and it has been panicking and trashing the disks on that > controller about every two days since the disks were installed. [...] > chip0 rev 1 on pci0:0 > chip1 rev 2 on pci0:7 [...] > > We're running 2.1-STABLE. > > Any ideas? Thanks. Disable external cache :-( From experience on one system. Depends upon the motherboard, but it's worth a try, and it made much less performance hit than I would have expected. -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good