Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Black
Doug White wrote: | On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote: | | > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now | > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time | > I reboot. | | Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode. | | There is a bug in Adaptec B

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Re: -STABLE NVidia drivers

2001-11-16 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
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Re: has 'options LOCKF_DEBUG' ever worked? (w/ patch) (fwd)

2001-11-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Maxim Konovalov wrote: > Alfred, John, thanks you very much for your answers. I expected > something similar. Btw are there any smart ways to find out does > underlying FS support inode concept or not? Yes, I know about > vnode.v_tag, but comparing it with VT_UFS/VT_NFS/VT_MFS etc does not > look

Re: VIA 82231 South Bridge

2001-11-16 Thread .
Søren Schmidt writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > It seems "."@babolo.ru wrote: > > > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Are there any planes to support > > > > > > VIA 82231 south bridge > > > > > > for UDMA33/66/100 ? > > > OK, support has been added to -

Re: BSD buffer management

2001-11-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Martin Kaeske wrote: > > Hello > Because i want to learn more about the BSD-kernel i bought > the book "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating > System" [McKusick, et.al.]. Now i come across the topic > "Buffer Management" and i have a question: Is it possible > that a call to brea

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Nov-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online >> tips & references) but John Baldwin convinced me otherwise :-) > > The evidence suggests that my original analysis is correct: > >> Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to >> the A

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Mike Smith
> I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online > tips & references) but John Baldwin convinced me otherwise :-) The evidence suggests that my original analysis is correct: > Error message when the SCSI disk is attached to > the AIC-7896 SCSI BIOS v2.20s1B1 ... > cs=c800

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Sandeep Joshi
John Baldwin wrote: > > > SUMMARY: > > The boot disk (ad0 in attachment) is not the problem. > > There are two other IBM SCSI disks attached to two Adaptec cards. > > Its these other two SCSI disks-da0,da1 which are empty and > > whose disklabels I played with. These cause a BTX error if > > the

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Nov-01 Sandeep Joshi wrote: > > Mike, > > Mike Smith wrote: >> The only real solution is to hot-plug >> the disks, camcontrol rescan, then dd zeroes over the heads of the disks >> and then re-lable them safely. > > Yep, that method works for now. > > I was hoping its easy enough to cr

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Sandeep Joshi
Mike, Mike Smith wrote: > The only real solution is to hot-plug > the disks, camcontrol rescan, then dd zeroes over the heads of the disks > and then re-lable them safely. Yep, that method works for now. I was hoping its easy enough to crack this myself (with some online tips & references)

Re: VIA 82231 South Bridge

2001-11-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems "."@babolo.ru wrote: > > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Are there any planes to support > > > > > VIA 82231 south bridge > > > > > for UDMA33/66/100 ? > > OK, support has been added to -current, MFC will follow later... > I extracted patch > > --- sys/dev/ata/ata-dma.c W

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> Doug Write wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote: > > > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now > > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time > > I reboot. > > Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode. > > There is a bug in Adaptec B

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sandeep Joshi wrote: > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time > I reboot. Lemme guess, you're running them in 'dangerously dedicated' mode. There is a bug in Adaptec BIOSen that they will not tolerate DD

Re: VIA 82231 South Bridge

2001-11-16 Thread .
Sorry for my error, the exact name of south bridge is VT8231 (from the manual I have in hands now) Søren Schmidt writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Are there any planes to support > > > > VIA 82231 south bridge > > > > for U

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Mike Smith
> I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time > I reboot. The most likely cause of this is that you're messing up the disks to the point that your BIOS (probably your SCSI controller BIOS) is crashing when it tries to read them.

RE: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Nov-01 Sandeep Joshi wrote: > I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now > I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time > I reboot. > > They dont occur if I disconnect those disks. They occur > even after I rewrite those labels. Its not dedicated mode > or whatever

Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Sandeep Joshi
I changed the disklabels on a few SCSI disks and now I keep getting these "BTX halted" messages every time I reboot. They dont occur if I disconnect those disks. They occur even after I rewrite those labels. Its not dedicated mode or whatever now.. I am currently running 4.4-REL. I am wil

Re: kernel error messages

2001-11-16 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Hello, this may be due to a bad block on your hard disk, in the swap partition (matt ?) TfH PS : anyway, the "error 22" comes from some code (happy RTFS'ing !) Dmitry Mottl wrote: > > Hi, All > > I got following error, while I say 'reboot'. > Please, help me with description, what's

kernel error messages

2001-11-16 Thread Dmitry Mottl
Hi, All I got following error, while I say 'reboot'. Please, help me with description, what's going on Why 'pagein' and 'pageout' failed? What is error 22? Nov 14 18:07:00 spectre /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 1552,size 16384, error 22 Nov 14 18:08:03 spectre /kerne

Re: has 'options LOCKF_DEBUG' ever worked? (w/ patch) (fwd)

2001-11-16 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Hello, On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Yes I saw this, I have no idea what 'JH' stands for either that's why > I left it as is. > > The problem is that VTOI is ufs specific, this "fix" will break > LOCKF_DEBUG for all other FS's other than UFS because it casts > the vnode->data p

BSD buffer management

2001-11-16 Thread Martin Kaeske
Hello Because i want to learn more about the BSD-kernel i bought the book "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" [McKusick, et.al.]. Now i come across the topic "Buffer Management" and i have a question: Is it possible that a call to bread() can result in a buffer covering