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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:22:06 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        Konstantin Saurbier <saurbier@math.uni-bielefeld.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
Subject:   Re: New Intel boards (was: Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?)
Message-ID:  <20060821072206.GA8029@cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <20060821071053.GC5178@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
References:  <20060820120049.06E0516A52F@hub.freebsd.org> <200608201338.56109.matt@chronos.org.uk> <20060820162032.GE633@core.byshenk.net> <DD2510C9-FFA6-43D1-95F3-52A35EA52AFF@math.uni-bielefeld.de> <20060821071053.GC5178@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:10:53AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
 > Hi, all!
 > 
 > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote:
 > 
 > > This errors are not driver or OS dependent such as they appear on  
 > > FreeBSD as well on different Linux distros.
 > > Since not all controllers suffering of these errors it is maybe  
 > > depending on the firmware or board/chip revisions.
 > 
 > We have two brand new TYAN B5161G20SH4 systems that feature
 > ICH7 controllers and SATA-hotplug-bays. One system is equipped
 > with two Seagate ST3160811AS drives, the other one with
 > WD1600YS-01SHB0 drives.
 > Both are configured with gmirror for slice 1.
 > 
 > No problems at all after several days of "make -j4 buildworld".
 > 
 > OTOH I can confirm that I got random "watchdog timeouts"
 > with the em driver. debug.mpsafenet=0 fixed the problem
 > for now.
 > 

Several users reported em(4) watchdog errors but I couldn't reproduce
it on my system. A blind patch posted to net ML and I'd like to hear
success/failure report.

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-August/011352.html
Make sure to enable "debug.mpsafenet=1" during testing.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



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