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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:11:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
To:        "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>
Cc:        "'holm@freibergnet.de'" <holm@freibergnet.de>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: console problem
Message-ID:  <20021204220821.D46408-100000@april.chuckr.org>
In-Reply-To: <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CBD6@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com>

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Long, Scott wrote:

> This problem and the general 'console freeze' problem, and possibly
> even the 'floppy doesn't work anymore' problem should be fixed.  The
> problem was with the ahc and ahd drivers corrupting the callout list
> used to trigger timeouts in the kernel.

Pardon me for taking this long to answer, but the surest method of proving
the fix was a sufficient torture test. It's quite finished now, and this
is indeed a fix.

I'm curious how you got to looking into the ahc driver for an ostensible
syscons bug ... just perusing commit logs?

>
> Scott
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Holm Tiffe [mailto:holm@freibergnet.de]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:27 AM
> > To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: console problem
> >
> >
> > Chuck Robey wrote:
> >
> > > I've been on vacation for the last week, so I haven't been watching
> > > -current like a good boy should, but I've suddenly been
> > seeing a serious
> > > problem, and it *might* not have been reported, and seeing
> > as code freeze
> > > is almost here, it's worth risking a bit of embarrassment, I guess.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, it's the console, it's been locking up.  I just
> > retried it with a
> > > kernel cvsupped not 2 hours ago, and it's still here.  All
> > the vty's lock
> > > up, and once even froze the PC speaker (beeping annoyingly at me).
> > >
> >
> > I see the "hanging Speaker" problem on an Asus A7V with an
> > Athlon 2000+
> > and 256 Megs of RAM, so it seems not SMP related, nor Tyan related.
> >
> > Holm
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