On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:15:05PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:46:22PM +0100, mtheobalds@mac.com wrote:
> > 	When typing "reboot" either from single-user mode or when "su"-ed 
> > 	to root, a kernel panic ensues after the line: "NetBSD does not 
> > 	trust itself to update the RTC on shutdown..."
> > 	We then get the following lines:
> > 
> > 		sd0(ncrscsi0:0:0:0): polling command not done
> > 		panic: scsipi_execute_xs
> > 		Stopped in pid 262 (reboot) at _cpu_Debugger+0x6:    unlk    a6
> > 	
> > 	This seems to be slightly intermittant (I didn't got it once when I 
> > 	used the "reboot" command.)
> 
> Is it possible that this has to do with the scsipi-thorpej import
> not quite knowing the right way to shut down the ncrscsi bus on a
> nubus Mac (for which we have very little documentation)?

It's more like the ncrscsi driver fails to execute commands in polling mode
(polling is only used at shutdown time, or for core dumps).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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