[indiana-discuss] changes in the ata driver between builds 111b and 117?

[Knut Anders Hatlen]

Michael Schuster <Michael.Schuster at Sun.COM> writes:

> I hope this is the right place to ask this:
>
> on my private no-name PC (Asus P5N73AM MB, Nvidia Graphics, internal
> sata disk, external USB disk), I've been seeing hangs and panics
> during boot since I upgraded from 111b to 117, this behaviour persists
> on 118.
> I saw a few panic messages which looked like I/O to me, but I have not
> managed to capture a dump; I managed to get a screen shot of a hang
> during boot of 118 just a few minutes ago (see attachment).

You're probably seeing this bug:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6853011

Although the public comments only mention panics, this bug also caused
hangs with I/O warnings similar to the ones you saw.

-- 
Knut Anders