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Date:      Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:54:35 -0500
From:      Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reboot no work
Message-ID:  <19981010225435.A327@TOJ.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810110307.VAA10428@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:07:56PM -0600
References:  <19981010214101.A327@TOJ.org> <199810110307.VAA10428@panzer.plutotech.com>

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On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:07:56PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> Tom Jackson wrote...
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:07:37PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > > Tom Jackson wrote...
> > > > Thanks for asking, very good question. Well it doesn't show up on my
> > > > Thinkpad using the same bytes from the server and kernel compiled on the
> > > > server. It gets more interesting, or is that perplexing?
> > > > 
> > > > To make sure, I tried to boot the server with a single cpu kernel made at
> > > > the same time. It went into single user because it can't fsck sd1. It does
> > > > reboot from that condition. When in single user mode both fdisk and disk-
> > > > label report that 2 disk without msdos partitions are not configured (?).
> > > > They report as expected in smp mode. At this point, I'm not really sure if
> > > > I have a damaged system or there is a bug somewhere. I'll keep looking.
> > > > Hopefully someone might recognise something familar.
> > > 
> > > Can you pop it into the debugger when it hangs?
> > > 
> > > A stack trace might help diagnose the problem.
> > > 
> > > Ken
> > > -- 
> > > Kenneth Merry
> > > ken@plutotech.com
> > > 
> > Sorry, no. THe keyboard is froze and only the reset button will bring
> > me back. Have tried turning off all local script startups but still
> > have problem. If I don't wait a respectable time after issuing the reboot
> > I get a improper umount into fsck land. Have also noticed a somewhat long
> > time delay after local startups when booting. This reboot problem has only
> > been around since about the 10/8 or 10/9.
> 
> Can you try backing sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to revision 1.7?  It could be
> that the cache sync command is causing one of your disks to hang.
> 
> I'm not sure that's the problem, though, since you should be able to get
> into the debugger when it hangs.
> 
> Also, what kind of SCSI controller do you have?  There was a bug in the
> aha, bt and ahb drivers that caused the polling-for-completion stuff to not
> work.
> 
> Ken
> -- 
> Kenneth Merry
> ken@plutotech.com
> 

YES, that seems to have fixed it, at least for me. The controller is an
onboard aic7880 wide ultra. There's also a 2940 narrow in the box. The
two main drives are Fujitsi M2954[SQ]. Justin looked at the Q this summer.

What's next?

-- 
Tom

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