Message-Id: <199512021722.JAA14480@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Help!!!! 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Dec 1995 22:10:03 +0800."
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Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 09:22:54 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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>Just by coincidence, the people that described their hardware were running
>EISA and 284X controllers.  Guess what?  There was a major EISA rewrite
>about the same time as John committed his benign Async changes....

Actually, I was able to reproduce it on a asystem with a 2940 before any of
my eisaconf/aic7xxx changes went into the tree (it was the last machine I
was to test my changes on before committing them).  There was also a
report from someone with a Buslogic VLB card...  From the two hangs I got
on my EISA machine (running my new eisaconf code) that I analized with DG,
the flags on the buffer that the system was sleeping on where in an
inconsistant state.  Neither the eisaconf code nor the aic7xxx code munge
buffers on a personal level, so I don't know how they could cause this type
of problem.  Anything is possible though. :)

I haven't seen a getblk hang on my machine for more than a week now.
Perhaps the problem has been inadvertantly fixed???

>-Peter

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Justin T. Gibbs
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