From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 10:58:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB3616A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:58:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (rrcs-se-24-73-171-238.biz.rr.com [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A524943D2D for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:58:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@gargantuan.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gargantuan.com [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin-injector (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B077815; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 549867A1; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:57:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:57:48 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: "Alastair G. Hogge" Message-ID: <20040610105748.GE43037@gargantuan.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Alastair G. Hogge" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Allan Fields References: <200406061940.15400.agh@tpg.com.au> <20040608055624.GC59752@afields.ca> <200406101428.49101.agh@tpg.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406101428.49101.agh@tpg.com.au> X-WWW-Site: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-PGP-Public-Key: $X-WWW-Site/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Home-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Home-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Home-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Home-Address3: United States of America X-Good-Question-Guide: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Netiquette-Guidelines: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-DCC: : X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on phoenix.gargantuan.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Allan Fields Subject: Re: Custom kernels causing Promise ATA RAID to go down 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: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:58:28 -0000 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004-06-10T14:28:48+1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > Thought about this. But I don't think it is the case. I've had the 2 HD f= or=20 > sometime now, and I they used to 24/7. I have 3 fans running in my tower= =20 > case. >=20 > I've just re-built world again recently and I'm still getting problems. >=20 > I need to get that other machine going. I am using an on-board Promise controller, and had similar problems when first setting up this server. # pciconf -lv | grep -B1 -A3 Promise atapci0@pci2:2:0: class=3D0x010485 card=3D0x1275105a chip=3D0x5275105= a rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'Promise Technology Inc' device =3D 'PDC20276 Ultra133 TX2/FastTrak TX Lite EIDE Controller' class =3D mass storage subclass =3D RAID What I discovered was that my cables were too long. I had purchased those round cables in order to reduce air flow restrictions in the case, but at the time, I could only get 36" cables. After quite a few lost mirrors, I found out that those cables _should_ be a maximum of 18" long. I replaced the 36" cables with 18" cables and haven't had a problem since. I don't know if this will help you, but it certainly fixed the problems that I was having. Good luck. --=20 Mike perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=3D&%C=3D\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E