From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 7 8:27:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hydrologue.com (adsl-63-194-243-48.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.194.243.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1711A37B42F for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bradym@localhost) by mail.hydrologue.com (8.10.1/8.10.0.Beta6) id fB7LXFM20049 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:33:15 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:33:15 -0800 From: Brady Montz To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers Message-ID: <20011207133314.A20037@3docs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Nyberg writes: > 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 Yeah, I'm using soft updates too. My crashes are generally the same as Richards - no panic, just a freeze. Except my screen doesn't go blank. -- Brady Montz bradym@balestra.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message