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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!Rezonet.net!rcogate.rco.qc.ca!server1.securenet.net!usenet From: "Jean M. Vandette" <jmvandette@securenet.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: panic ? Date: 30 Dec 1995 11:30:38 GMT Organization: SecureNet Information Services Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4c37su$hst@server1.securenet.net> References: <4bkhqi$1lm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4bp51a$7s@news.nacm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: office.securenet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: scottt@nacm.com Hi, I just read your postings about the "Panic" rebooting syndrome which is effecting the 2.1-RELEASE of FreeBSD. Your suspecting the 2940 Adaptec is on the right track, I've been haveing the same problem rebooting some times as much as every half hour. Yet other times the system can be under full load and nothing, it will run for hours... been a long time since uptime was in days. There is I'm told a bug in the 2940 driver which the author of the driver is in the process of correcting. The first beta tests of the new fixed 2940 driver were to get sent out Dec 29/95 and he hoped that a fix could be released in the near furture. The bug effects 2940 SCSI-2 and certain drives worse than others Seagate drives are more effected than say a Micropolis. I myself had a series of events that all happened about at the same time which is where I became aware that there was a bug with the 2940 driver and SCSI-2 drives. Things that will help, if you have speed accelerators like "pipeline burst" and "PCI burst" in your BIOS setup disable them for now this will help, disable any routines that use heavy disk I/O. Good luck Jean M. Vandette