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From: smace@metal.neosoft.com (Scott Mace)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD problems with BL 747... more info...
Date: 1 Feb 1994 21:43:55 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft (Katy Research Center)
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Hmm, this is strange, I've a a buslogic 747s and is appears to be working
fine under FreeBSD...

In article <michaelv.760039636@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote:
>I managed to capture the message exactly as it appears when my kernel
>panics hanging on my BusLogic 747:
>
>	bt0: 0 device timed out
>	bt0 not taking commands
>	panic: should call debugger here (adaptec.c)   # (actually, bt742a.c)
>	syncing disks... vm_fault(f818a294, 0, 1, 0) -> 5
>	fatal page fault in supervisor mode
>	trap type 6 code f8a50000 eip f811dfcd cs f8450008 eflags
>		10246 cr2 18 cpl ffffffff  # (long line)
>	panic: trap
>	dumping to dev 1, offset 1952 .........
>
>Could it be that it's somehow waiting on a bogus event or something?
>Or that it's waiting for something when the BL747 thinks it's not
>busy?  Maybe the BL747 returns a slightly different status code in
>this case than the BT742a did, and the driver thinks it just timed out
>because it didn't return what the driver was expecting?  Have the
>status codes changed at all between the BT742 the driver was written
>for and brand-new BL747's?