Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:11:54 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst <tom@hur.st> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? Message-ID: <20050604171154.GA28650@voi.aagh.net> In-Reply-To: <78CA3F3D-91F8-435A-8FF9-6680724844D8@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <20050516195859.GA59189@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <042501c55ba7$360fac30$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> <20050518194356.GA2129@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <08dc01c55d47$d7697100$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> <20050520194839.GG2129@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <0ce901c55d7d$ee0690b0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> <20050520225230.GJ2129@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <CA7D4A15-2E2B-43D9-9686-DCCEC571EAD2@FreeBSD.ORG> <20050522003633.GB57477@voi.aagh.net> <78CA3F3D-91F8-435A-8FF9-6680724844D8@FreeBSD.ORG>
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* Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote:
> > Save me Søren!
>
> You have picked some of the most dreaded HW out there thats for sure,
> so I'm not sure I can do that :)
Meh, the BP6 might be old, but what's wrong with it? I've used it for
the past half a decade practically 24/7 and this is the first time
I've had problems with it. The Athlon is using a good quality Epox
motherboard and a moderately expensive SATA card using about the most
common SATA controller there is.
If you have recommendations for good controllers/etc, I'm very
interested :)
> Anyhow, you should try a recent -current since some of the race/
> timeout problems thats possible in 5.x has been fixed there.
I'll give it a try when I have time. These are my work machines, so I
do need some stability, but I do follow current@ and cvs-all, so I guess
I can manage :)
One thing I find very odd about this is raw IO doesn't seem to have a
problem; gmirror happily syncs 400G of data between two drives without a
hitch, but the instant I mount the drive and attempt to copy something
to it, I get an immediate timeout.
After upgrading to RELENG_5 of last night (+ATA mkIII), the timing
out drive on the Athlon is now popping off the controller instead of
recovering; no amount of atacontrol reinits/detach/reattach gets me
anything more than:
Master: </> ATA/ATAPI revision 0
Since I can't even make the drives run in PIO mode for some reliability,
I guess I have little to loose in migrating to -CURRENT.
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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