From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 07:15:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D0F1065671 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mirror176@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s8.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s8.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71488FC0C for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mirror176@hotmail.com) Received: from BAY110-W56 ([65.54.229.156]) by bay0-omc1-s8.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 00:03:00 -0700 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [98.165.138.223] From: Edward Sutton To: Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 00:03:00 -0700 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jun 2008 07:03:00.0843 (UTC) FILETIME=[85E48BB0:01C8C86C] Subject: Promise SATA300 TX2plus with LG GGW-H20L burner on 7.0 causes endless timeouts. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:15:01 -0000 This is a collection of information to my troubles. I am hoping to find o= ut what mailing list is most appropriate before I started posting kernel du= mp backtraces and asking what other details to post. What other details may= be relevant to gather would also be helpful. Are there safe ways to crash = a system to gather details without further filesystem corruption? My motherboard is about six years old so it has no SATA ports for the dri= ve; My old Promise SATA150 TX4 was loaded with four hard drives; it appears= to not support optical drives so I recently purchased the Promise SATA300 = TX2plus to have a card giving what I need on this old computer and hopefull= y an IDE port on my next computer (if the board I buy in a year comes with = a PCI slot for it). I thought Promise cards receive good FreeBSD support an= d was readily available at a local retailer.=20 Upon booting, I get the following 2 errors after a long pause: acd0: timeout waiting to issue command acd0: error issuing ATA PACKET command These errors are looped. The pause occurs just after acd0 and acd1 are iden= tified. After a little over a page of errers there are cd2 entries for the = SATA drive that appear. I was able to `atacontrol detach ata6` yesterday to= put a hault to that traffic. The system periodically pauses while the erro= rs are being generated. Inside X, pauses appeared to come every 8 seconds o= r so and last a second or two. I booted this morning to restore services wh= ile I was at work and accidentally detached ata5 (with a mounted but not in= use partition) and started X (which loads the nvidia driver and takes the = videocard fan down to an idle state). When I got home, the system was slugg= ish with the pauses (seemed to not give the full 8 seconds between I/O free= zes). Attempting to detach ata6 never returned to a prompt, but the error l= oop appeared to have stopped. Trying to open programs or login to other vir= tual terminals just lead to freezing in the related program or terminal. ct= rl + alt + delete left me with the gui on F9 and only F1 as a text terminal= , but both were crippled beyond use before than with the freezing. Pressing= power did not begin the usual shutdown sequence; ACPI(?) errors followed f= or each press with a message something along the lines of not being ready y= et. After many minutes of no action, I forced a powerdown. Reboots lead to segfaults after I logged in and tried to detach ata6 (whi= ch appeared to succeed). I should have a crash dump, but do not recall the = error; it lead me to conclude that file system corruption may be present. I= had to reboot in single user mode to detach ata6 and run fsck which found = errors (as usual of almost every time I have had improper shutdowns on Free= BSD machines). Booting normal after than and detaching ata6 was followed wi= th another segfault so I have unplugged the drive in the meantime. The old and new controller cards are listed as the following on bootup: atapci0: port 0x9000-0x903f,0x9400-0x940f,0x9800-0x987f mem 0xe8040000-0xe= 8040fff,0xe8000000-0xe801ffff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci2 atapci1: port 0x9c00-0x9c7f,0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xe8041000-0xe8041fff,0xe802= 0000-0xe803ffff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci2 Any suggestions where to go from here to get the system working? Thanks a= gain, Edward Sutton, III _________________________________________________________________ It=92s easy to add contacts from Facebook and other social sites through Wi= ndows Live=99 Messenger. Learn how. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=3DTXT_EML_WLH_LearnHow=