From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: smiley@zenzebra.mv.com (smiley at zenzebra.mv.com) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:48:44 +0000 Subject: [9fans] New venti install won't boot after 05:00 crash In-Reply-To: <7d066e369db2a6684b8b954c9c11e2c9@ladd.quanstro.net> (erik quanstrom's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:55:15 -0400") References: <7d066e369db2a6684b8b954c9c11e2c9@ladd.quanstro.net> Message-ID: <8662rdt9pf.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Topicbox-Message-UUID: be3e5524-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom writes: > i thought that dma problems were almost always controller/cable or master/slave > related? almost all the device i deal with are sata these days. and before > that, i stuck to scsi. > smiley, did the kernel with *sdC0dma support print anything different? Yes, it did. I noticed that the DMA kernel prints "nomp: no mp structure" at bootup. But I didn't save kmesg from the failed installs, so I can't give you any more diffs than that. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |E-Mail: smiley at zenzebra.mv.com PGP key ID: BC549F8B| |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+