Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:00:29 +0200 From: Thomas Seck <tmseck@web.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-RELEASE kernel freeze(message dumped by ahc driver?) Message-ID: <20010429140029.A460@basildon> In-Reply-To: <200104281851.f3SIpG103311@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:50:42AM -0700 References: <3AEB08BD.BD686DBE@home.com> <200104281851.f3SIpG103311@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Apr 28 2001, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <3AEB08BD.BD686DBE@home.com>, cjm88@home.com writes: > > I have seen similar messages on adaptec hardware. It was quite mystifying > > because at first I thought there might > [edited] > > I'm not sure whether this is relevant or not. My problem when I had it > appeared to be different. > > You may want to take a look at the following, > > http://www.scsifaq.org/dev_probs.html I will have a look at it, thank you for the pointer. > When I purchased my PIII/933 on an ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard about 2-3 > weeks ago, replacing an aging P120, my system would on occasion hang. > There were no messages to syslog. I was able to reproduce it almost at > will with a lot of I/O to my Zip 100 drive, though any amount of I/O to > any drive on the SCSI bus would randomly produce the hang. Then I > discovered the URL above. Not wanting to spend $$$ on a new PCI SCSI > adapter, fiddled around with the BIOS settings, finally disabling the > PCI 2.1 in the BIOS, which I assume limits the MB to the PCI 2.0 > protocol. Since disabling the PCI 2.1 setting in the BIOS I've > experienced no hangs. The system's been extremely stable. Maybe this will help too. I will examine on wednesday, whether the box of my PR has "survived" the long weekend (labour day in Germany). I am still not quite sure, whether the problem had been triggered by Justins driver MFCs; I did upgrade the box too early to 4.3. Regards, Thomas Seck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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