From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 3:17: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boco.fee.vutbr.cz (boco.fee.vutbr.cz [147.229.9.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E881B37B491 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 03:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz (kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz [147.229.8.12]) by boco.fee.vutbr.cz (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f11BGXo55537 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:16:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (from cejkar@localhost) by kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f11BGWS28954; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:16:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:16:32 +0100 From: Cejka Rudolf To: Fenix Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise ATA100 Card Resets + Simular Problem Message-ID: <20010201121632.A26749@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fenix@xs4some.net on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:34:00AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fenix wrote (2001/02/01): > I just expierenced the same with my onboard HighPoint ATA Me too. With onboard Promise ATA. > My box even froze 2 times !!!! It feelt kindof bad as i never had a frozing > FreeBSD box and now it happens :(( I have noticed even more freezes: Jan 15, Jan 16, Jan 20, Jan 22, Jan 29. Today is Feb 1. However, there were some disk changes. On Jan 20, we had 4 disks in a box (ad[0246]) and since Jan 22 we have just three disks in a box (ad[046]). I really do not know what to do :-( > Does anyone maybe has expierience with HighPoint controllers or ATA-RAID ? In another box, I have 3ware 6400 ATA-RAID and it seems to be quite stable. > Also does anyone knows what exacly the ar0 device is and how it works ? It is ATA-RAID, maybe you have configured it in BIOS. > When i fireup sysinstall and it checks my devices it my kernel generates a > lot of messages like the ones below ... > - --- > ad4s1: slice extends beyond end of disk: truncating from 80019702 to 40011237 > sectors > Feb 1 08:24:04 xs4some /kernel: ad4: cannot find label (no disk label) > Feb 1 08:24:04 xs4some /kernel: ad4s1: cannot find label (no disk label) > - --- Hmm, if there is ar0 with ad4 and ad6, I think that disks ad4 and ad6 should be hidden. ??? > On Thursday 01 February 2001 07:57, you wrote: > > My Promise Ultra100 ATA card is generating the following > > errors during any large copies to the drive: > > Jan 31 22:33:01 gunnar /kernel: ad4: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - > > resetting Jan 31 22:33:01 gunnar /kernel: ad4: WRITE command timeout tag=0 > > serv=0 - resetting Jan 31 22:33:01 gunnar /kernel: ata2: resetting devices > > .. done > > Jan 31 22:33:01 gunnar /kernel: ata2: resetting devices .. done Yes, I know them too: Jan 21 14:14:38 x /kernel: ad6: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting Jan 21 14:14:38 x /kernel: ata3: resetting devices .. done But I can not determine when they appear. > > Theses errors pop up every 30 seconds or so during long, > > sustained copies. I can see these messages very seldom (Jan 11 and Jan 21). Our system: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 31 00:05:18 CET 2000 x:/usr/src/sys/compile/CONFIG CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (534.55-MHz 686-class CPU) real memory = 268435456 (262144K bytes) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 pcib2: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: at 0.0 irq 16 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 atapci0: port 0xb000-0xb00f at device 7.1 on pci0 chip2: port 0xc400-0xc403,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbcff irq 18 at device 7.5 on pci0 atapci1: port 0xdc00-0xdc3f,0xd800-0xd803,0xd400-0xd407,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc07 mem 0xd8100000-0xd811ffff irq 18 at device 12.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xcc00 on atapci1 ata3: at 0xd400 on atapci1 APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! ad0: 27199MB [55262/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad4: 73308MB [148945/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 78167MB [158816/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 -- Rudolf Cejka (cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar) Brno University of Technology, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message