Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?

2002-10-30 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Actually, not even then. Modern IDE drives only write entire tracks at a > > > time. If you modify a single sector, then the drive has to read the entire > > > track into the buffer, in-place edit the sector, and then rewrite the entir > e > >

Re: core dump from ffs_write - i think

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Nate Lawson writes: > Try to figure out where it was in frames 8 and 10 (probably a module). > Try the gdbmods port (/usr/ports/devel/gdbmods) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: core dump from ffs_write - i think

2002-10-30 Thread Nate Lawson
Try to figure out where it was in frames 8 and 10 (probably a module). -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: core dump from ffs_write - i think

2002-10-30 Thread Philipp Stutz
Philipp Stutz wrote: had an other core dump (looks almost the same): this one was wrong... here the correct one: IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00354000 initial pcb at physical address 0x002c5dc0 panicstr: page fault panic messages: --- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtu

Re: core dump from ffs_write - i think

2002-10-30 Thread Philipp Stutz
had an other core dump (looks almost the same): IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00354000 initial pcb at physical address 0x002c5dc0 panicstr: page fault panic messages: --- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor read, page no

Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?)

2002-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-30 10:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a more valid point. > > Note that WD and Seagate have dropped their warranty on IDE drives > from 3 years to 1 year. What does this say to you? That I am a terribly lucky man to have bought my WD disk one year ago. The

core dump from ffs_write - i think

2002-10-30 Thread Philipp Stutz
in the last few days i had three core dumps. the machine was up for a few month without a problem. this is the backtrace of the third core dump (haven't got vmcore.X of the others): IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00354000 initial pcb at physical address 0x002c5dc0 panicstr: page fault panic messa

Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache?)

2002-10-30 Thread Narvi
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 October 2002 at 2:03:50 +, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: > >>> I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives > >>> are pretty unreliable though. > >>> > >

RE: Command used to trace the stack of a process

2002-10-30 Thread John Baldwin
On 29-Oct-2002 Nate Lawson wrote: > l *routine + 0x350 or if you use a core file with symbols (-g), gdb will > do it automatically. Please read the gdb docs for better info. You can also use 'nm' with grep to find routine's start address. Then add the offset to that and use 'addr2line' to find

FYI: FreeBSD and Intel/ICP Vortex Raid-Controllers

2002-10-30 Thread Kai Gallasch
Hi, a few days ago I looked through the LINT file of the stable kernel sources and wondered if the "iir" RAID device would also support the ICP vortex line of RAID controllers (INTEL recently bought the manufacturer ICP and with it its whole productline of controllers) So I asked one of the con

removing slice chair from a running system

2002-10-30 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, diskspace is getting cheaper nowadays and the number of primary slices (partitions) proportionally stays the same and several OS' love primary slices. So far I have a `master' OS which permanently occupies a slice and which remaps slice entries of `slave' OS'. But when I have slave1 OS runn