Subject: port-alpha/8704: splice or EIDE crash ("panic: biodone already") on Alpha
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Seebs <seebs@gandalf.plethora.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/29/1999 11:40:09
>Number: 8704
>Category: port-alpha
>Synopsis: under mild disk load, alpha may panic
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-alpha-maintainer (NetBSD/alpha Portmaster)
>State: open
>Class: support
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 29 11:39:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Seebs
>Organization:
>Release: October 28
>Environment:
System: NetBSD gandalf.plethora.net 1.4M NetBSD 1.4M (GANDALF) #0: Wed Oct 27 21:20:08 CDT 1999 seebs@gandalf.plethora.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GANDALF alpha
>Description:
System has a pair of EIDE drives merged via ccd. Writes to this
partition occasionally yield
savecore: reboot after panic: biodone already
but I don't know how to usefully debug this further.
>How-To-Repeat:
untar large file on the ccd'd drive.
The controller is one of the Promise controllers supported by the new
pciide driver, but it has a local patch (taken off the NetBSD mailing
lists) to coerce the IO area under 0x8000, because this is apparently
necessary on this system.
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: