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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:25:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-dma.c ata-pci.c
Message-ID:  <200310230725.h9N7P0JQ052058@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20031022234456.475eb74e.Alexander@Leidinger.net>

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It seems Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:01:08 +0200 (CEST)
> Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I've not heard of anybody else having trouble with the ich5 on
> > -current, and you did test without vinum involved ?
> 
> I hear a lot of clicks and "peeps" (the peep sound gives me the
> impression that the motor of a head is trying to push the head through
> the case of the disk, but isn't able to stops trying it after a second)
> from the disk at one (or more) spurious interrupt(s). A "newfs -U -O 2
> ad1s1a" results in at least one "click and peep" sequence. Mounting it
> results in a "beep", and running "iozone -a" results in a lot of beeps
> an clicks. Running it on both drives in parallel (without vinum) results
> in a hard hang of the system. I think attaching a monitor to the system
> will reveal, that it fails in the same way as it did with the vinum
> stripe.

Hmm, are you sure those drives are OK ? have you tested them on another
system/controller ?

> I noticed, that Asus released a new BIOS for the board. It doesn't
> mentions any improvements in the area in question, but I will give it a
> try tomorrow too.

Okies, let me know what happens..

-Søren



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