From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 14:18:39 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 1E26416A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:18:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683DC43D5A for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:18:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (220-244-72-6.tpgi.com.au [220.244.72.6]) by mail.tpgi.com.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5AEINwq032024; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:18:23 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:18:53 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200406061940.15400.agh@tpg.com.au> <200406101428.49101.agh@tpg.com.au> <20040610105748.GE43037@gargantuan.com> In-Reply-To: <20040610105748.GE43037@gargantuan.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406110018.53764.agh@tpg.com.au> X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed cc: "Michael W. Oliver" 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 14:18:39 -0000 On Thursday 10 June 2004 20:57, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > 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 > > for sometime now, and I they used to 24/7. I have 3 fans running in my > > tower case. > > > > I've just re-built world again recently and I'm still getting problems. > > > > 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=0x010485 card=0x1275105a chip=0x5275105a > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' > device = 'PDC20276 Ultra133 TX2/FastTrak TX Lite EIDE Controller' > class = mass storage > subclass = RAID My on-board controller is slightly different: # pciconf -lv | grep -B1 -A3 Promise atapci1@pci0:14:0: class=0x010400 card=0x809e1043 chip=0x3376105a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' device = 'PDC20376 FastTrak 376 SATA/RAID Controller' class = mass storage subclass = 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. My cables are quite small and un-obtrusive. But I will look into re-organizing the box's guts....all thou I only just did that a couple of months ago..including a air blasting to get ride of dust and crap. > I don't know if this will help you, but it certainly fixed the problems > that I was having. Thanks for the info thou, we shall see how I go. > Good luck. Thanks :-) I need it -Al