Subject: Re: Problems getting a core dump.
To: None <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr, eeh@netbsd.org>
From: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/14/2002 17:05:24
| On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:43:08PM -0000, eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
| > 
| > X1s do not have nvram the same way most other machines do.  They have
| > a rtc with a rather interesting programming interface.  Suffice it to
| > say that I have been unable to get any reasonable values in and out
| > of the rtc on that machine.

You can try adding `rtc@ebus' and see if that helps your clock problem.

| > Anyway, even if you did manage to fix the time issues, the pciide 
| > driver seems to have problems with savecore.  It gets into a state
| > where the driver constantly times out and becomes practically
| > unusable even after savecore is terminated.  (One of these days
| > I need to get someone to decypher the output of the pciide driver
| > to determine the root cause.)
|
| Do you have the timeout message ?
| What kind of controller is there in the X1 ?
| Did you try to hardcode the more to PIO or multiword DMA ?

Actually...  I tested this again yesterday and I no longer get those
errors from the pciide driver.  I wonder if something got fixed 
recently.

Eduardo