From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 19:03:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33EA1065670 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D535E8FC1B for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by QMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WHjU1a01L0b6N64A3K3nDe; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:03:48 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id WK3l1a00Z2P6wsM8PK3lo4; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:03:46 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=t4SvTNmEXjs1jPPIsQwA:9 a=WR5bFmyXrNpEDO7DbDsA:7 a=6mnrAUTaAdXdJg66oL6wbsEo5icA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85A8DC9432; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:03:45 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: David Boyd Message-ID: <20081023190345.GA93688@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Subject: Re: Promise SX4060 on 7.1-BETA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:03:49 -0000 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:01:55PM -0400, David Boyd wrote: > I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise > SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives. > > The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm > retyping here) > > {snip -- for dmesg errors, see URL below} You're the second person to report this problem recently. The other person (see below) reported the same thing, also using a PATA controller, and also using Seagate disks (though different models). We now have two reproducible test cases where users are seeing continual errors from the controller when attempting to set the transfer mode, enable read and write caching, and SET_MULTI. The only similarity so far is that they're both PATA users. In Kristian's case, his disks were in a usable state, but we ultimately determine the Silicon Image controller might be responsible for what he was seeing (the SMART errors we saw in his logs could've been from any time in the past; he saw errors on multiple disks, and not all of those disks shown SMART log errors)... while David's not using a Silicon Image controller at all. Kristian's setup: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046023.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046027.html Silicon Image 0680 ATA100 (problem was also seen on Promise PDC20270) ad4: at ata2-master PIO4 ad5: at ata2-slave PIO4 ad6: at ata3-master PIO4 ad7: at ata3-slave PIO4 David's setup (what we know so far): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046140.html Promise SX4060 ad4: 114473MB at ata2-master PIO4 ad8: 114473MB at ata4-master PIO4 Soren/Andrey, can either of you comment on this? If at all possible, it would be good to get this hammered out before 7.1-RELEASE is tagged. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |