Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 00:03:00 -0700 From: Edward Sutton <mirror176@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Promise SATA300 TX2plus with LG GGW-H20L burner on 7.0 causes endless timeouts. Message-ID: <BAY110-W5635D905908D096898C3A8E6B60@phx.gbl>
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This is a collection of information to my troubles. I am hoping to find o= ut what mailing list is most appropriate before I started posting kernel du= mp backtraces and asking what other details to post. What other details may= be relevant to gather would also be helpful. Are there safe ways to crash = a system to gather details without further filesystem corruption? My motherboard is about six years old so it has no SATA ports for the dri= ve; My old Promise SATA150 TX4 was loaded with four hard drives; it appears= to not support optical drives so I recently purchased the Promise SATA300 = TX2plus to have a card giving what I need on this old computer and hopefull= y an IDE port on my next computer (if the board I buy in a year comes with = a PCI slot for it). I thought Promise cards receive good FreeBSD support an= d was readily available at a local retailer.=20 Upon booting, I get the following 2 errors after a long pause: acd0: timeout waiting to issue command acd0: error issuing ATA PACKET command These errors are looped. The pause occurs just after acd0 and acd1 are iden= tified. After a little over a page of errers there are cd2 entries for the = SATA drive that appear. I was able to `atacontrol detach ata6` yesterday to= put a hault to that traffic. The system periodically pauses while the erro= rs are being generated. Inside X, pauses appeared to come every 8 seconds o= r so and last a second or two. I booted this morning to restore services wh= ile I was at work and accidentally detached ata5 (with a mounted but not in= use partition) and started X (which loads the nvidia driver and takes the = videocard fan down to an idle state). When I got home, the system was slugg= ish with the pauses (seemed to not give the full 8 seconds between I/O free= zes). Attempting to detach ata6 never returned to a prompt, but the error l= oop appeared to have stopped. Trying to open programs or login to other vir= tual terminals just lead to freezing in the related program or terminal. ct= rl + alt + delete left me with the gui on F9 and only F1 as a text terminal= , but both were crippled beyond use before than with the freezing. Pressing= power did not begin the usual shutdown sequence; ACPI(?) errors followed f= or each press with a message something along the lines of not being ready y= et. After many minutes of no action, I forced a powerdown. Reboots lead to segfaults after I logged in and tried to detach ata6 (whi= ch appeared to succeed). I should have a crash dump, but do not recall the = error; it lead me to conclude that file system corruption may be present. I= had to reboot in single user mode to detach ata6 and run fsck which found = errors (as usual of almost every time I have had improper shutdowns on Free= BSD machines). Booting normal after than and detaching ata6 was followed wi= th another segfault so I have unplugged the drive in the meantime. The old and new controller cards are listed as the following on bootup: atapci0: port 0x9000-0x903f,0x9400-0x940f,0x9800-0x987f mem 0xe8040000-0xe= 8040fff,0xe8000000-0xe801ffff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci2 atapci1: port 0x9c00-0x9c7f,0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xe8041000-0xe8041fff,0xe802= 0000-0xe803ffff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci2 Any suggestions where to go from here to get the system working? Thanks a= gain, Edward Sutton, III _________________________________________________________________ It=92s easy to add contacts from Facebook and other social sites through Wi= ndows Live=99 Messenger. Learn how. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=3DTXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow=
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