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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD problems with BL 747... help!
Date: 30 Jan 94 02:43:41 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.759897821@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu
Is anyone with a BusLogic SCSI controller besides me having stability
problems with NetBSD-current? My machine has been awesomely stable
with current for months running on two IDE drives. I installed a new
SCSI controller and hard drive this week, and am having a ton of
problems.
If I boot from the IDE drives, and mount the SCSI drives, the machine
runs, but I can't keep it up for more than half a day, doing compiles
and stuff on a SCSI filesystem. I'm usually not there when it
reboots, so can't say what appears on the screen -- but the machine
does reboot itself (doesn't just hang).
If I attempt to boot directly off the SCSI drive, the machine only
comes up as far as starting portmap, then it hangs for a minute, then
reboots with a message similar to (it goes by *real* fast):
system page fault
bt0 timed out
bt0 not responding to commands
should call debugger here (adaptec.c)
Then it reboots. Note that it thinks the SCSI card timed out and is
not responding *after* it has alread fsck'd and finished most of rc
and netstart off the SCSI root filesystem. It always chokes at
portmap, unless I interrupt the boot before that; in which case it
dies a random time shortly afterwards.
The root filesystem on the SCSI drive is an exact copy of the one off
the IDE root filesystem. Both mount /usr from the same SCSI
filesystem. The system runs for hours this way when booted off IDE,
but won't run past portmap when booted off SCSI -- with the same
binaries! The best it runs with the SCSI drive in the system is for
several hours, though, when it used to run for days on end doing
monster compiles with just IDE drives.
When I try to build a kernel with "option DDB", the kernel won't boot
at all -- it gets as far as printing the entry point, right before it
prints the copyright, then reboots. So I have no way of investigating
more closely.
This is frustrating the hell out of me. The system seems to run so
smooth and great while its up (when booted off IDE with SCSI mounted
after boot), until it crashes.
Do any of the people (Julian?) responsible for development of the SCSI
drivers read this list? If not, could someone forward this to the
appropriate parties? Does anyone have a shred of a clue what might be
going on, or how to find out? I just spent over $600 on all this new
SCSI hardware and I'd like to have it work. Help!
What I have:
ALR Business Veisa 386dx33
Conner CP3104 IDE drive
=> BusLogic 747s EISA SCSI-2 controller
Quantum ProDrive 425s SCSI-2 drive
10 meg of RAM
The controller is enabled in FAST SCSI-2 mode (10MB/sec), with EISA
burst mode enabled (I disabled it, but had no visable improvement).
Everything is the same in my system from when it ran perfectly except:
I removed one IDE drive (used to have two CP3104's), and I added the
SCSI controller and drive. My sources are presently about 2-3 days
old. This is not a bootblock problem as far as I can tell (I've tried
two different versions of bootblocks -- 1.8 and patched 1.14 -- with
no difference in results).
Here is my config file:
# original config file:
# GENERICAHBBT -- Generic machine w/ahb and bt drivers -- distribution floppy
#
# STINGRAY -- Config for Michael VanLoon's i386 box stingray.cc.iastate.edu
#
machine "i386"
cpu "I386_CPU"
cpu "I486_CPU"
ident STINGRAY
timezone 6 dst
maxusers 32
maxfdescs 256
options MATH_EMULATE
#options DUMMY_NOPS
options MACHINE_NONCONTIG
options SWAPPAGER,VNODEPAGER,DEVPAGER
options KTRACE,FIFO
options SCSI
#options ISOFS,MSDOSFS,QUOTA
options FDESC,KERNFS,PROCFS,LOFS
options INET,NFSCLIENT,NFSSERVER
#options GATEWAY
options "COMPAT_43","TCP_COMPAT_42","COMPAT_NOMID","USER_LDT"
options XSERVER,UCONSOLE
options FASTLINKS,LKM
options SYSVMSG # System V message queues; see msg.h
options SYSVSEM # System V semaphores; see sem.h
options SYSVSHM # System V shared memory
options SHMMAXPGS=64
#options DDB
#options DIAGNOSTIC
config netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0
controller isa0
controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0
disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1
#controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
#disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0
#disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
controller bt0 at isa? port "IO_BT0" bio irq 11 vector btintr
device sd0 at bt0 flags 0 drive ?
device sd1 at bt0 flags 0 drive ?
#device sd2 at bt0 flags 0 drive ?
#device sd3 at bt0 flags 0 drive ?
device st0 at bt0 flags 1 drive ?
#device st1 at bt0 flags 1 drive ?
device cd0 at bt0 flags 2 drive ?
#device cd1 at bt0 flags 2 drive ?
device ch0 at bt0 flags 3 drive ?
#device ch1 at bt0 flags 3 drive ?
device pc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint
device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
device com0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector comintr
device com1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector comintr
#device com2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector comintr
#device com3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector comintr
# Logitech bus mouse:
device lms0 at isa? port "IO_BMS1" tty irq 5 vector lmsintr
#device lpt0 at isa? port "IO_LPT3" tty irq 7 vector lptintr
#device lpa0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty
#device lpa1 at isa? port "IO_LPT2" tty
device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 9 iomem 0xd0000 vector edintr
#device we0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 9 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 8192 vector weintr
#device ec0 at isa? port 0x250 net irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 iosiz 8192 vector ecintr
#device ne0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 9 vector neintr
#device is0 at isa? port 0x320 net irq 10 drq 7 vector isintr
#device wt0 at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 5 drq 1 vector wtintr
#sound-blaster
#device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 bio irq 7 drq 1 vector sbintr
pseudo-device ether 1
pseudo-device log
pseudo-device loop
pseudo-device pty 64
pseudo-device sl 1
pseudo-device ppp 1
pseudo-device speaker
pseudo-device bpfilter 4
pseudo-device vn 4
#pseudo-device audio
Thanks for any help you might be able to lend...
--Michael
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Michael L. VanLoon -- michaelv@iastate.edu -- gg.mlv@isumvs.bitnet
Iowa State University of Science and Technology -- The way cool place to be!
Project Vincent Systems Staff, Iowa State University Computation Center
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