Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 04:07:28 +0800 From: "Andrew Chan" <achan@achan.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATA READ command timeout (and worse) Message-ID: <014b01c34267$e5687a00$4200a8c0@goofy>
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While we are on this topic... I have been running 2 Seagate ATA66 disks (one on each channel) on a = HighPoint HPT370 ATA100 controller (FreeBSD 4.7 and then 4.8) for more = than a year and never had any problems. I recently built a new server with 2 Maxtor ATA133 80GB disks on a = Promise Fasttrak 100/TX2 and have been having random timeout problems = since. Sometime the system would be okay for a few days with no = problems, even after doing a few "make world" runs. Sometime timeout = problems showed up only minutes after a fresh install (I had been = re-installing to try to debug the problem). When timeout occured, the = ata driver took out the disk from the mirror array, and then either I am = stupid or something is wierd with the Promise firmware, there just = doesn't seem to be a good way to re-sync'ing array without major file = system corruption and the system was toasted. Assumming the disks, cables and power supply are all okay, is timeout = problems on Promise RAID cards still an existing and known issue = experienced by others? Andrew achan _A_T_ achan.com
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