Subject: Re: CATS crash with heavy IDE use
To: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/26/2000 13:45:05
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:07:56PM +0100, Steve Woodford wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed this before, but today I've sat down and tested. When two
> > drives are in heavy use on a CATS it completely locks. For instance if
> > either of the two following commands are run separately, everything works
> > fine. If both are run at the same time the machine will completely lock.
> 
> This affects diskful Sharks too, although much less so with -current
> compared to the 1.4 branch. It has also been reported on some i386
> installations.

I disagree. 

Not at all with NetBSD-1.4 and -1.4.1, reliably reproducible with 1.4.2 and
-current as of two months ago, on one of my Sharks with its new disk.

Maybe this should be discussed on tech-kern?

Regards,
	-is