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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:59:13 +0100
To: Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
	"Kristian K. Nielsen" <freebsd@jkkn.dk>
Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver
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I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE drive): they
appeared when I noticed that I had forgotten to use soft-updates. After
I have turned them on, I experienced the first crash in 15 minutes. Then I
get one every two days, when doing heavy disk IOs. I got a crash 10 minutes
ago when the machine was unattended though (and not doing important disk
IOs), and could see a "panic" message on the console. Unfortunately, I hadn't
enough free space in /var/crash to save the kernel.

Do you people use soft-updates? From my experience on this problem, I assume
that either soft-updates or the ATA driver may be causing those spontanous
reboots.


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