Subject: Re: adaptec 2940 disaster
To: Carl Shapiro <samsara@panix.com>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/04/1997 07:14:21
>I was doing a *lot* of disk I/O and thrashing my CPU when suddenly my 
>console froze.  Oh no...
>
>I rebooted an started to fsck by hand.  While fsck'ing / I got the following
>error:
>
>ahc1: ahc_scsi_cmd: more than 256 DMA segs

This is bad.  Somewhere, someone, is passing an entirely bogus datacount
to the aic7xxx driver.  This is usually a problem with some off_t or
other 64 bit math in the kernel.

>Carl 

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