From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 16:40:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64348106566C for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:40:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (relay2.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57AA08FC08 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:40:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.93.1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 26764504 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:40:26 +0700 Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q52GePVh047492 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:40:26 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q52GePT0047491 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:40:25 +0700 (NOVT) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:40:25 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120602164025.GA44278@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20120516042218.GA57757@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <4FB473E7.6090307@ShaneWare.Biz> <20120517050114.GA93590@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <4FB55364.2050208@ShaneWare.Biz> <20120602053805.GB42456@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.livejournal.com/pubkey.bml?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:40:29 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 2. It looses one of the HDDs during intensive read/write operations: > > > > Jun 2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 4 port 0 > > Jun 2 00:55:33 vas kernel: ahcich1: is 00000000 cs 000000c0 ss 000000f0 rs 000000f0 tfd c0 serr 00000000 cmd 0000c617 > > Jun 2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: Timeout on slot 0 port 0 > > Jun 2 00:56:48 vas kernel: ahcich1: is 00000000 cs 00000001 ss 00000000 rs 00000001 tfd c0 serr 00000000 cmd 0000c017 > > Jun 2 00:57:20 vas kernel: ahcich1: AHCI reset: device not ready after 31000ms (tfd = 00000080) > > > > I shall of course check the HDD and cable, but they worked flawlessly on > > the previous system. > > well i've had such problems regularly with many motherboard. It happens > often when you have many disks and put heavy load on them. Indeed this happens under load. I would not call it particularly heavy though, it's more like moving large files between zfs datasets causes the loss of drive. > And it is only > result of poor hardware (not sure - poor controller, motherboard design, > both?). > > i tried changing disks, ports, until i replaced this server with dell > poweredge ;) Can we be sure that it is not a bug in the ahci or ada driver? Is there a way to reinit and reattach the failed drive? > > if this is quite random, swapping ports change the behaviour but not > solve it, swapping cables does not, yet there is no real rule when and why > it happens you have same problem that i've had. Could it have been a power problem? > > 3. I had to run xorg in VESA mode, because xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_4 does > > not recognize the video chip on the motherboard on question. That is a > > tried this from ports? > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 18 maj 16:49 xf86-video-intel29 Yes, I have too. It says "no device detected" or something like that. > > depends of hardware model. > > actually intel GFX is the only one i tolerate and it works. > > Eg the one in my lenovo G550 laptop needs 2.7 driver, the one builtin in > Atom D525 processor needs 2.9 driver. > > Completely new intel GFX are not YET supported but that what i only > heard as i don't have any of them. What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend? I'm not a gamer, this box runs FreeBSD only with a recent xorg, I often watch movies on it. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru