From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 06:18:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from green.homeunix.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9A016A4CE; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:18:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from green.homeunix.org (green@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4LDIUnK004217; Fri, 21 May 2004 09:18:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green@green.homeunix.org) Received: (from green@localhost) by green.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4LDIU6h004216; Fri, 21 May 2004 09:18:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:18:29 -0400 From: Brian Feldman To: Tony Byrne Message-ID: <20040521131829.GB3037@green.homeunix.org> References: <572099044.20040520094258@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <572099044.20040520094258@eircom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lockups with Intel ICH5 SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:18:31 -0000 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. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\