Re: panic! panic! panic! sigh.. panic!

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:07:45 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> I have a T60, running
> 
> NetBSD foo.ir.bbn.com 4.99.69 NetBSD 4.99.69 (GENERIC) #4: Fri Jul 11
> 09:38:21 EDT 2008
> gdt%foo.ir.bbn.com@localhost:/usr/obj/gdt-current/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> i386
> 
> and it seems quite stable.
> 
> But I have no ahci - I have the hw in compat mode so it is piixide.  I
> don't remember clearly if that's because it used to crash, or if it's
> because NetBSD didn't used to support AHCI, but I think you should try
> turning off AHCI in the bios.
> 

I have ahci turned off, but that was because it didn't always see the
whole disk.

I wonder about rbus -- the comments indicate that the code for 3GB
machines has never been tested.  Try explicitly setting RBUS_MIN_START
to 3GB, perhaps.  (I have a 3GB T61, but I run amd64.)


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb