On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:02:27PM +0100, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
> I've experimented a crash of my -current system today:
> 
> $ uname -a
> NetBSD titine.fr.eu.org 1.5Y NetBSD 1.5Y (TITINE-Current-20010918)\
> #13: Mon Nov 12 18:33:28 CET 2001   \
> root@titine.fr.eu.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TITINE i386
> 
> Context:
> 
> I was trying to read news with Gnus and it seems that, at same time,
> the news daily crontab start. Then, my system deadly froze and the
> only solution was to press the big button.
> 
> The only messages about this crash (just before it, i think) are found
> in log/messages:
> 
> Nov 14 18:25:17 titine /netbsd: wd1b: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 5715
> 2 of 57152-57159 (wd1 bn 1148816; cn 1139 tn 11 sn 11), retrying
> Nov 14 18:25:36 titine /netbsd: wd1b: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 5715
> 2 of 57152-57159 (wd1 bn 1148816; cn 1139 tn 11 sn 11), retrying
> Nov 14 18:25:36 titine /netbsd: wd1b: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 5715
> 2 of 57152-57159 (wd1 bn 1148816; cn 1139 tn 11 sn 11), retrying
> Nov 14 18:25:36 titine /netbsd: wd1: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mo
> de 2
> Nov 14 18:25:36 titine /netbsd: wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mo
> de 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA data transfers)
> (etc.)

Are wd0 and wd1 on the same IDE channel ? If so, that can be the problem.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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