irqlock1 "????"

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:35:50 -0500 (EST)


My SMP machine breaks __badly__ with version 2.1.30. During last night's
automatic tape backup it crashed <forever> with:

irqlock1 stuck at C0156f8e, waiting for C01b89f6.

There are no longer any recognizable file-systems on any of the attached
disks (3), even one that was not mounted. All four disk-drives were found
with their activity lights flickering (not on steady), as though correct
Disk I/O was happening.

An attempt to boot the original Operating System, Linux version 2.1.29
fails with..

Uncompressing Linux...
crc error

-- System halted

Booting from my rescue floppy disks shows no partition tables existing.
They were overwritten by 0xfe <forever>

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Richard B. Johnson
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Penguin : Linux version 2.1.30 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
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