Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:45:36 -0800 From: "Wil Hatfield" <freebsd@hyperconx.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues Message-ID: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOKEPHPNAA.freebsd@hyperconx.com> In-Reply-To: <200603311729.27681.mistry.7@osu.edu>
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I was afraid Soren was going to be mentioned. Well shouldn't the FreeBSD 5.4 release information state that it isn't recommended for machines with ATA drives? I really have no way of downgrading to 5.3 without losing a couple hundred customers over it. But with all these filesystem freezes I guess I will eventually lose them anyways. Without the acknowledgement of the bugs and proper bug tracking I doubt that these issues are going to get fixed in 5.5 or 6.1 either. It seems the ATA issues are being ignored. How can a release make it this far down the branch without fixing the good old ATA drive issues first? Cheers, -- Wil Hatfield -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anish Mistry Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield - HyperConX Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Friday 31 March 2006 17:08, Wil Hatfield - HyperConX wrote: > What is the problem with 5.4 and ATA drives? I am running the > latest release of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p11. I have two basic ATA > drives, no raids and no scsi anything. Every now and then under a > bit of load the harddrive freezes with either a kernel panic or a > Write_DMA error. I have to reboot the machine and run fsck -y to > recover. Sometimes I have to run it twice. >From my understanding ATA in 5.4 is slightly broken since Soren hasn't actually touched that code. The last time he touched the 5.x branch was for 5.3. I had a weird issue with a 5.3->5.4 upgrade a while back. My tape drive disappeared :(. I didn't have time to investigate, so I just backed down to 5.3, which works fine while I work up a schedule to migrate to 6.X. -- Anish Mistry
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