Q for any FreeBSD users

[Karim]

I installed 6.1 and setup by NIC. Things were smooth for a couple days but today I can no longer log in.

I get notified that / was not properly dismounted, and then:

"panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called"

Going back into Windows, I've discovered that the entire 15GB FreeBSD partition is used up. I'm not sure how that's possible, unless Norton Partition Magic is reporting incorrectly but I doubt that.

I can login to Single-User Mode but I'm not sure where/what I should be looking at to fix the problem. I'm not sure why root is not dismounting either.

I formatted the entire parition and re-installed from scratch but the error still appears.

Anyone with any ideas?

[primelord]

When you boot into single user mode are you then manually mounting the root partition and looking around to see what is taking up all the space? Once you mount the root partition if you run the following command from / you can see what files are taking up all your space:

du | sort -g | more

[Karim]

I first run fsck to fix the filesystem, then mount -a. I ran the gu command and the final byte total is not 15GB.

"panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called" seems to be the major stumbling block as it occurs upon every reboot. Something to do with a DMA controller? I'm not sure.

[dixieflatline]

You should check <a href=http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2005/freebsd-hardware/20051009.freebsd-hardware.html>here</a>.

BTW primelord is there anything you are not good at? Football, softball, poker, linux, the list continues...