Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:34:07 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues Message-ID: <200603311834.19476.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOKEPHPNAA.freebsd@hyperconx.com> References: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOKEPHPNAA.freebsd@hyperconx.com>
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--nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 31 March 2006 17:45, Wil Hatfield wrote: > 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? ATA on 6.x and CURRENT are being maintained by Soren, just not 5.x. =20 Moving to 6.x should fix the problem. Checking gnats only shows=20 outstanding WRITE_DMA issues for 5.x. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBELbx7xqA5ziudZT0RAooUAJ4nKUoM8poalR5R8mcCDN0+AX5NwwCgganW ahk7bohSWL/sJG+ZN9ulzIQ= =D/ni -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G--
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