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From: Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>
To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
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	"Kristian K. Nielsen" <freebsd@jkkn.dk>
Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> 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.

Yes I use soft-updates. The peculiar thing aboout my crash though is that
there was no panic; the machine just froze and the screen went blank, so
maybe I was hit by a different problem.

	-Richard

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