From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 1 15:13:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03766 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA03749 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA20040 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:13:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03773; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:06:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 00:06:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another installment of the "dup alloc"/"bad dir" panic problems. References: <199703012227.PAA05697@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703012227.PAA05697@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mar 1, 1997 15:27:15 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > So, now the question I'm considering is "what could be some > > timing dependent that it affects both IDE and SCSI drivers?" > > 1542B? > > How much RAM do you have? > > If you have more than 16M ... it's bouncing. Try backing down to > 16M and not bouncing and see if that's where it is... Moot point, try again. I have seen it on a 1542A with 8 MB of RAM. Heikki has experienced it on his news servers, which are much larger machines that certainly don't suffer from ISA bus braindeadness (in this respect). No, if it were that simple, we'd be happy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)