From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 02:39:58 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 7EBE516A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tpgi.com.au (mail.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6F443D45 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (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 i569do6A023464 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:39:51 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:40:15 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406061940.15400.agh@tpg.com.au> X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed Subject: 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: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:39:58 -0000 Hello, For a couple of weeks now I've been having problems with my custom kernel crashing the system. I've re-cvsup'd and nuked /usr/obj and rebuild worlds and kernels alike, but the only solution is to boot with a generic kernel....which smurfs me to tears The problem is that my kernel keeps causing ATA DMA READ/WRITE errors and then eventually causing my RAID array to go down, thus needing a deletation and re-definition thru the BIOS. Plus uncountable fsck run thru. I've not been able to catch any of the error messages but I did see a error reference to a ffs/softupdate source code file. I don't know how to capture and store the output. As the system just basicly hangs and freezes the keyboard. Most of the time I've been X, which can only be solved with a hard reboot. Running a GENERIC kernel is (with debuging things removed) is so slow. X/KDE performs so poorly now. My dmesg -v cane be found here: users.tpg.com.au/adsl55l9/dmesg.out Custom kernel conf: users.tpg.com.au/adsl55l9/NOVA Boot loader.conf users.tpg.com.au/adsl55l9/loader.conf Thanks in advance.