Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:20:50PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > I'd like to attack these driver problems. What I need is to spend a > > couple of days with an affected system that can reliably reproduce the > > problem, instrumenting and testing the driver. I have a number of > > theories about what might be going wrong, but nothing that I'm > > definitely sure about. If you are willing to set up your system with > > remote power and remote serial, and if we knew a reliable way to > > reproduce the problem, I could probably have the problem identified and > > fixed pretty quickly. > > Scott, I just wanted to take a moment to publicly thank you for stepping > up to the plate on this one. I have a feeling that most of these > reports will have to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, but despite > that, I really do apprecaite you offering to take this one. Thank you > very, very much. > > In regards to my experience with said problem, I haven't been able to > reproduce the errors I saw on January 25th: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/040013.html > > I do need to get the box in question into our datacenter and set up our > remaining dev/test box to do nothing but hard I/O between ZFS and UFS > for hours (or days) on end to see if I can reproduce it. There's an > entry in the FreeBSD ZFS wiki about this problem, but there's a > possibility the issue I saw is different than what another user reported > (his result was a panic, my result was a machine that locked up hard > after letting FreeBSD report DMA errors for some time). That user's > post is here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/040047.html
I have 2 laptops running 7 http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/digital/dmesg/ http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/dell_latitude_xpi_p133st/ http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf that wont boot without /boot/loader.conf hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > If you are willing to set up your system with remote power and remote serial Sorry, I can't offer that easily ( Would need to remove laptop battery, move laptop & UPS to another site, set up serial of UPS to a net server & prob v. little to no chance of BIOS & serial console) I could easily test any patches though, made against 7.0-stable (sorry no current partition on there currently - small disc.) Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 is spam. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"