From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 02:36:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C3816A4CF for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:36:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-1.hut.fi (smtp-1.hut.fi [130.233.228.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2E843D2F for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:36:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuure@laurinolli.net) Received: from localhost (katosiko.hut.fi [130.233.228.115]) by smtp-1.hut.fi (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAK2absG023156 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:36:37 +0200 Received: from smtp-1.hut.fi ([130.233.228.91]) by localhost (katosiko.hut.fi [130.233.228.115]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20189-03-8 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:36:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from vortex.home.lan (jt7-194.tky.hut.fi [130.233.22.59]) by smtp-1.hut.fi (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAK2Zw7l023068 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:35:58 +0200 Received: from [10.176.70.251] (nexus-ge.home.lan [10.176.70.251]) by vortex.home.lan (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAK2aXip007463 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:36:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from tuure@laurinolli.net) Message-ID: <419EAEB7.8090409@laurinolli.net> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:40:55 +0200 From: Tuure Laurinolli User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on katosiko.hut.fi X-TKK-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.1.2-hutcc at katosiko.hut.fi Subject: Re: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus stalls computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:36:48 -0000 Sebastian Holmqvist wrote: >> I have a system disc (PATA) into the motherboard and two SATA discs in >> the controller card. Are the SATA disks in some sort of RAID? >> When I transfer large amounts of data, the system freezes up and when >> you restart, the SATA discs are corrupt. Are there any error messages in the console? I'm having similar problems with RAID1 array of 200GB Seagate PATA disks on a HPT370 RAID controller. When accessing sector 268435455, they cause DMA timeouts, and break the array. Since both drives have errors, the whole array is broken, and the kernel panics (because it's the only You could try to dd if=/dev/serialata_drive of=/tmp/foo skip=268435450 count=10 to see if you have the same problem, or something completely different. Tuure Laurinolli