From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 23:34:28 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 2E0FD16A401 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:34:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from mail.united-ware.com (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED8943D46 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:34:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (am-productions.biz [69.61.164.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.united-ware.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2VNn4C6077677 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:49:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:34:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603311834.19476.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, MYFREEBSD2 autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1364/Thu Mar 30 15:05:50 2006 on mail.united-ware.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: 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 23:34:28 -0000 --nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 31 March 2006 17:45, Wil Hatfield wrote: > 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? ATA on 6.x and CURRENT are being maintained by Soren, just not 5.x. =20 Moving to 6.x should fix the problem. Checking gnats only shows=20 outstanding WRITE_DMA issues for 5.x. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBELbx7xqA5ziudZT0RAooUAJ4nKUoM8poalR5R8mcCDN0+AX5NwwCgganW ahk7bohSWL/sJG+ZN9ulzIQ= =D/ni -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1516583.Ie0kB9ka3G--