From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Daniel Eisenbud , Subject: Re: Fwd: mesh SCSI bus locks hard on 7500 when burning a CD-R in dao mode Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 12:39:31 +0100 Message-Id: <19341222051115.6472@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010126122229.B2874@allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu> References: <20010126122229.B2874@allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >Nope, nothing at all. :-( It just freezes. Since the SCSI bus is >gone, any attempts to write to logs fail, as do any attempts to read >them, of course. cdrdao gets to the "calibrating power" stage, the >light on the cd-rw drive blinks for a few seconds, and that's it. Last >time I tried this experiment, I at least turned swap off first, and the >system survived a bit longer, but I wasn't able to find anything out. >Is there any other way to probe what's going on? I do have a 2 gigabyte >drive that I could attach to the external SCSI bus and boot from: maybe >then I could get more info, at least, about what is going on. Do you get the same lockup without the G3 accelerator ? Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/