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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:34:10 +0100
From:      Harry Newton <hn+freebsd@yewbarrow.net>
To:        "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sata: setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout
Message-ID:  <87hco0fgbx.fsf@vm.yewbarrow.net>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90707191026t2a87d9a8p38be8fc32b5fd829@mail.gmail.com> (Steve Franks's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:26:16 -0700")
References:  <539c60b90707190958h37e21843me437bc872030de4@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070719120808.023ee4a0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <539c60b90707191026t2a87d9a8p38be8fc32b5fd829@mail.gmail.com>

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Steve

Check your cables: I had similar sporadic failures which were caused
by a SATA cable that didn't seat well into the sockets on the board
and drive. When I replaced the cable with a better one with a spring
clip the failures stopped.

 - Harry


"Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> writes:

> Wasn't in front of it right at that moment, thought someone might have
> a silver-bullet right off the get-go.  So, here it is:
>
> Steve
>
> [steve@aire ~]$ dmesg
> Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 31 21:58:00 MST 2007
>     steve@aire.franks-development.dyndns.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz (2532.63-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x651d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
>   AMD Features=0x20000800<SYSCALL,LM>
> real memory  = 1039859712 (991 MB)
> avail memory = 991551488 (945 MB)

[...]

> ad0: 157066MB <Hitachi HDS721616PLAT80 P22OA60A> at ata0-master UDMA133
> acd0: DVDR <NEC DVD RW ND-3500AG/2.16> at ata1-master UDMA33
> ad4: 190782MB <SAMSUNG SP2004C VM100-49> at ata2-master SATA300
> ad6: 157066MB <HDT722516DLA380 V43OA9BA> at ata3-master SATA150
> ad8: 157066MB <HDT722516DLA380 V43OA9BA> at ata4-master SATA150
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /raincloud was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /mnt/rsync/raincloud was not properly dismounted
> ad6: FAILURE - device detached
> subdisk6: detached
> ad6: detached
> ad8: FAILURE - device detached
> subdisk8: detached
> ad8: detached
> [steve@aire ~]$
>
>
> On 7/19/07, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>> At 11:58 AM 7/19/2007, Steve Franks wrote:
>> >I'm getting this error alot, on shutdown. smartmon reports all my
>> >drives are healthy with 0 errors, I've replaced the controller and
>> >upgraded to a 500W powersupply.  At random one of my 4 sata drives
>> >will give a "disconnected" error in dmesg and dissappear, usually when
>> >you acess it for the first time on a given boot, but not always the
>> >same drive.  Also, I've now started getting a panic after syncing all
>> >the drives on shutdown.  I'm mystified....

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