From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 00:48:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0C216A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C891C43D1D for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:48:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id i9U0lxHH053972; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:47:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Louis LeBlanc Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:48:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20041029223412.GD4114@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20041029223412.GD4114@keyslapper.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More Intel ICH5 SATA150 hangs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:48:01 -0000 On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:34:12 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >The system is a fairly new (3 months old) Dell 8300; 3Ghz Pentium with >HT enabled. The disk controller is an Intel ICH5 SATA controller, as >mentioned above. The disk is a WDC WD1600JD-75HBB0 (Western Digital). > >Last time I asked about this, it was suggested that the drive might be >bad. The bios had a test that passed the drive. It was then >suggested that I use the WD test utility. I wasn't able to do this at >the time because I don't have a floppy on this system, and creating a >bootable CD from the image didn't work (I think it had a: hardcoded >in). Well, I finally broke down and hijacked the floppy from another >machine and ran the WD diags. Passed with flying colors, both the >quick test and the extended test. The drive is fine. > A useful program on RELENG_5 is=20 /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ have a quick look to see if there are any bad sectors on the drive. Run the daemon, and do a snapshot (smartctl -a ad0) before and after the crash and see if there is anything new recorded on the drive. >So today I was building OpenOffice and everything came to a screeching >halt again. See the log entries above. >Same result the other poor schmuck got when he tried it. There was >also a suggestion that HT be turned off. Kinda defeats the whole HT works against you unless the scheduler is specifically aware of it, and right now the ULE scheduler is broken. For sure turn HT off in your BIOS and make sure you use SCHED_4BSD and NOT ULE > >Anyone have any other suggestions, info, whatever? I'll try turning What does your kernel config look like ? =20 ---Mike