From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 22:43:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3316216A400 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:43:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hyperconx.com) Received: from artemis.hyperconx.net (artemis.hyperconx.net [66.181.8.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C6143D53 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:43:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hyperconx.com) Received: from adsl-69-225-224-190.dsl.skt2ca.pacbell.net ([69.225.224.190] helo=Production) by artemis.hyperconx.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FPSL9-000993-Lm for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:43:35 -0800 From: "Wil Hatfield" To: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:45:36 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200603311729.27681.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues 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: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:43:38 -0000 I was afraid Soren was going to be mentioned. Well shouldn't the FreeBSD 5.4 release information state that it isn't recommended for machines with ATA drives? I really have no way of downgrading to 5.3 without losing a couple hundred customers over it. But with all these filesystem freezes I guess I will eventually lose them anyways. Without the acknowledgement of the bugs and proper bug tracking I doubt that these issues are going to get fixed in 5.5 or 6.1 either. It seems the ATA issues are being ignored. How can a release make it this far down the branch without fixing the good old ATA drive issues first? Cheers, -- Wil Hatfield -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anish Mistry Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield - HyperConX Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Friday 31 March 2006 17:08, Wil Hatfield - HyperConX wrote: > What is the problem with 5.4 and ATA drives? I am running the > latest release of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p11. I have two basic ATA > drives, no raids and no scsi anything. Every now and then under a > bit of load the harddrive freezes with either a kernel panic or a > Write_DMA error. I have to reboot the machine and run fsck -y to > recover. Sometimes I have to run it twice. >From my understanding ATA in 5.4 is slightly broken since Soren hasn't actually touched that code. The last time he touched the 5.x branch was for 5.3. I had a weird issue with a 5.3->5.4 upgrade a while back. My tape drive disappeared :(. I didn't have time to investigate, so I just backed down to 5.3, which works fine while I work up a schedule to migrate to 6.X. -- Anish Mistry