It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Greg Childers writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Seems now is the time to raise problems with ATA, so here goes. I have used the
>ATA driver
> > since its introduction into -current without problem until recently. A kernel
>from October
> > 5 worked fine. Now, it no longer works using ATA, but works fine using the old
>WD drivers.
> > The console freezes after the dmesg and the keyboard is unresponsive. The ata
>info in
>
> I'm having similar problems, however mine are spurrious. They happen
> maybe 1 in 15 or so reboots. I'm seeing them on two kinds of
> machines, both alpha & i386. All the machines I'm seeing this on
> have serial consoles, but since about 95% of the machines I take care
> of do, they might not mean anything. I haven't seen it on a SCSI
> machine, but I'm not sure if that means anything either, since nearly
> all our machines boot from IDE disks.
>
> When they happen, the machine is unresponsive. It will ignore
> attempts to break into ddb. I'd have tried to debug it already, but
> its pretty damned hard to catch. Usually it only seems to happen when
> I reboot a machine from home & cannot walk up & hit the reset button.
> :-(
Hmm, damn that I can reproduce that error here, I have a machine on
constant reboot now, and hope to eventually catch this...
-Søren
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