Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:18:29 -0400 From: Brian Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Tony Byrne <byrnehq@eircom.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lockups with Intel ICH5 SATA Message-ID: <20040521131829.GB3037@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <572099044.20040520094258@eircom.net> References: <572099044.20040520094258@eircom.net>
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On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:42:58AM +0100, Tony Byrne wrote: > Hi, > > In recent weeks my FreeBSD current box has been experiencing frequent > hard lockups. Seldom a day goes by without the machine freezing > solid. My hunch is that this is somehow related to the onboard Intel > ICH5 controller and SATA HD, because during reboot after a lockup, > the machine often complain of a DMA timeout that hangs the box > while reading from the SATA drive. > > I have seen some FreeBSD-Current mails that mention issues > with with this controller and with SATA in general, so before I go > chasing other causes I was wondering if someone could tell me whether > there are open issues that could be the likely cause of these lockups. > > I will say that the problem has only manifested itself in recent > weeks, around the time that I removed an old 30Gb PATA drive from the > box that I had been using for backup. Unfortunately, that drive is no > longer available so I can't test whether it had a stabilizing > influence on the box. I haad hard lock-ups on my dual Athlon system that seem to have been fixed by the recent sleepqueue commits. Is this a possibility for you? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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