Dont know if this is related, but the disk i was using failed, might have 
been 
a power surge as i was swapping it into another host, or it might have 
been a faulty disk that was on its last legs.

I reinstalled 3.0rc6 on a new disk, a panic initiaated in cvs, and this 
ensued:

db> tr
0xd55c79f0: at panic+0x19c
0xd55c7a80: at trap+0xe8
0xd55c7b00: kernel DSI write trap @ 0x62677371 by pool_get+0x2a0: 
srr1=0x9032
             r1=0xd55c7bc0 cr=0x42444022 xer=0x20000000 ctr=0x315284 
dsisr=0x4200
0000
0xd55c7bc0: at vfs_busy+0x100
0xd55c7bf0: at getnewvnode+0xfc
0xd55c7c30: at ffs_vget+0xbc
0xd55c7c70: at ufs_lookup+0x828
0xd55c7d00: at VOP_LOOKUP+0x40
0xd55c7d20: at lookup+0x24c
0xd55c7d80: at namei+0x178
0xd55c7df0: at rename_files+0x118
0xd55c7ed0: at syscall_plain+0xe0
0xd55c7f40: user SC trap #128 by 0xefc2804c: srr1=0xf032
             r1=0xffffdbd0 cr=0x22222028 xer=0 ctr=0xefc28044
db>

Is a mesh patched kernel available yet?



On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Michael wrote:

> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:00:55 -0500
> From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
> To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
> Cc: netbsd@kb3ien.us, port-macppc@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: your mail
> 
> Hello,
>
>>> sd0:drive offline
>>>
>>> Any Ideas ?
>>
>> Yes. It's not REALLY offline - NetBSD is just not talking with the
>> drive  properly. It really is online (unless it really is broken, but
>> that's  between you and the drive).
>
> I think I just fixed the 'drive offline' problem ( and a whole bunch of
> other weirdnesses that mesh is notorious for ). Please update
> arch/macppc/dev/mesh.c and see what happens.
>
> have fun
> Michael
>

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  BSD: Are you guys coming, or what?


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