Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:42:12 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash on boot when disks are present? Message-ID: <20000302184212.A20215@internal> In-Reply-To: <v0422080bb4e401fc570d@[195.238.1.121]>; from blk@skynet.be on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:45:35PM %2B0100 References: <v0422080bb4e401fc570d@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Thu, 02-Mar-2000 at 12:45:35 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > Folks, > > This one is so weird that I don't have the foggiest clue how I'd > go about searching the archives for answers. Searching for "crash on > boot" netted me way more hits than I care to try to count. I felt similar about two weeks ago... > > I've got a FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE system (cvsup'ed a couple of weeks > ago) that I've been doing some tests with and it has been working > pretty well up until now (after I got the issues of which PCI slots I > can plug SCSI controllers into ;-). > > Anyway, the vendor field engineer for our disk drive array (one > of those expensive mainframe-style refrigerator-size models) came in > this morning to try to fix some problems we're having with it not > recognizing all the RAM that is installed, and among other things he > did a firmware upgrade of the controllers, and while we were at it we Do you have set the geometry to 1023/256/63 on the affected drives? You might want to look into PR# 16803 ... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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