hmm, on Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:02:51PM +0100, frantisek holop said that
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> hmm, on Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:05:57PM +0100, frantisek holop said that
> > background:
> > i am trying to run an e2fsck on an 120G ext2 partition on that
> > usb external disk and it just stops reading from the disk at
> > random positions.  for example it gets up to 30% of pass 1,
> > then it just stops.  no read errors in dmesg, nohing just
> > idling. eventually the disk spins down.  top says it's in
> > 'biowait'.  (it could also be a bug in e2fsck)
> 
> i have upgraded to the latest snapshot, and indeed
> the splassert goes away.
> 
> (but e2fsck still does not finish the disk, it stops
> reading at random positions of pass 1 (30%, 11%)
> and sits there doing nothing.)

ok.  no more splassert, but everything remains the same.
i just came back from another hard lock up after trying
to copy files from one external usb disk to another.
at some random point the copying just dies and then
first the processes doing anyhing with disks and then
gradually the whole system locks up. nothing in the logs,
no dmesg, nothing.

i have just copied the same files over without any problem
using my parents' notebook.

so it's either the bios/hw/usb ports or openbsd's scsi/usb
layer.

could someone help me please to create the most verbose
kernel possible (scsi+usb) and combined with some remote
syslog hopefully some of the logs will be readable?

-f
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