Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:10:59 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Tony Byrne <freebsd@byrnehq.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lockups with Intel ICH5 SATA Message-ID: <20040521041059.GA25151@VARK.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1132605953.20040520114046@eircom.net> References: <1132605953.20040520114046@eircom.net>
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On Thu, May 20, 2004, Tony Byrne wrote: > In recent weeks my FreeBSD current box has been experiencing frequent > hard lockups. Seldom a day goes by without the machine freezing > solid. My hunch is that this is somehow related to the onboard Intel > ICH5 controller and SATA HD, because during reboot after a lockup, > the machine often complain of a DMA timeout that hangs the box > while reading from the SATA drive. I see this as well with two identical SATA drives on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard. The drives last worked reliably with sources just prior to 5.2-RELEASE, and prior to that, just shortly before 5.0-RELEASE. (Notice a pattern? ;) ) You may want to try older sources. Also, I have had good luck with Doug Ambrisko's ATA patches, although I haven't tried to investigate which part of the patch fixes the problem. If I have some time this summer, I'll try to deconstruct one of Soeren's mega-commits to figure out exactly what change broke the ATA driver for my hardware. Unfortunately, I usually get disk corruption when the machine locks up, so the problem is painful to reproduce.
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