From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 13 09:19:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB91C16A418 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lulf@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from merke.itea.ntnu.no (merke.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F1913C428 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lulf@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merke.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A641423C2; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:19:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from caracal.stud.ntnu.no (caracal.stud.ntnu.no [129.241.56.185]) by merke.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:18:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by caracal.stud.ntnu.no (Postfix, from userid 2312) id DEF736240E2; Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:18:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:18:02 +0200 From: Ulf Lilleengen To: Nathan Butcher Message-ID: <20070813091802.GB3078@stud.ntnu.no> References: <46BFE620.8070906@fusiongol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46BFE620.8070906@fusiongol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SATA 300 TX4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:19:13 -0000 On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:03:28PM +0900, Nathan Butcher wrote: > >I tried to roll back to right before the above mentioned change > >Karsten (well, I assume it was him :-) ) noted on IRC that it might > >be the cause of the problems since I have a similar controller, though > >not exactly the same one, but it didn't fix the timeouts for me. > > >For this server I have 3 disks in a graid3 (so no ZFS but the errors > >are similar to what I have seen / heard about wrt. ZFS + ata use) and > >I get timeouts several times a day which causes FreeBSD to loose > >contact with one or more disks where I have to reboot before things > >recover (usually FreeBSD panic's enough so the system reboots by > >itself). > > I'm certain that the issue with this card isn't limited to ZFS. It's > been seen before in the 6.x series too. > > I really would like to find out which code changes ruined the card's > correct operation... if that could help the ata maintainer in some way. > Unfortunately my csup-fu isn't that strong, otherwise I would send my > source tree back to June 15th and analyse daily buildworlds from that > date until I could pin-point the exact date and file changes that caused > the problem all of us are seeing. I have problems with this card in -CURRENT too. Details can be found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/074960.html I never bothered trying with earlier versions of -CURRENT, but it works good in 6.2. -- Ulf Lilleengen