From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 19:11:09 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 D058E16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:11:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from afields.ca (afields.ca [216.194.67.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C1643D46 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:11:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: from afields.ca (localhost.afields.ca [127.0.0.1]) by afields.ca (8.12.6/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5GJB9Sd097484; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:11:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields@afields.ca) Received: (from afields@localhost) by afields.ca (8.12.6/8.12.9/Submit) id i5GJB8D3097483; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:11:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from afields) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:11:08 -0400 From: Allan Fields To: "Alastair G. Hogge" Message-ID: <20040616191108.GA86619@afields.ca> References: <200406061940.15400.agh@tpg.com.au> <20040608055624.GC59752@afields.ca> <200406162054.34795.agh@tpg.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406162054.34795.agh@tpg.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG 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: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:11:09 -0000 On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:54:34PM +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15:56, Allan Fields wrote: > [snip] > > I've also experienced instability with Promise RAID controllers in > > the past but didn't ever use a GENERIC kernel. I'm interested in > > this issue, but don't know if it's related. > OK Update. > > I've been nuking /usr/obj and cvsuping and rebuilding world every day since > back on the 6th of June. Finaly today the 16 of the June, after a rebuild > world/kernel my custom kernel no longer brings the array down. Happy happy > joy joy :-) That's good news. How long has it been running w/o crash, long enough to say the issue is resolved? Some recent SATA changes to sys/dev/ata/ata-{pci,chipset}.c might be to credit, considering you are using a SATA RAID chipset. > Also a bonus, ACPI now powerdown(s) the system without fail. Related ACPI issue: can you enter S3 sleep and resume with-out loosing the array? That was one problem I was having with the FastTrack (ATA RAID) controller. > -Al -- Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541