From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 20:19:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12A616A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6325043D53 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:19:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coe.ufrj.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 685A017019 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:19:11 -0300 (BRT) Received: from coe.ufrj.br ([146.164.53.65]) by localhost (roma.coe.ufrj.br [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 64149-06 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:19:04 -0300 (BRT) Received: from [10.0.8.17] (nat.int.gov.br [200.20.196.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by coe.ufrj.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CC217015 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:19:03 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <42714536.4020703@jonny.eng.br> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:19:02 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Lu=EDs?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050315) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <426D6087.7080908@jonny.eng.br> In-Reply-To: <426D6087.7080908@jonny.eng.br> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at coe.ufrj.br Subject: Re: Trouble with ataraid (was: 250G SATA drive?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:19:16 -0000 Followup to my message with more news. It is not a problem with mount_ntfs. Indeed, it seems to be a problem with the ataraid code. Today I booted from 5.3RC4 install CD, and mounted NO partition on the problem disk. But this was enough to corrupt the partition again. How can I know if the ATA RAID code is LBA48 compatible? The chipset is a Promise 20378, which is supported, in theory. João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just bought a Seagate 250G SATA drive to run in a shared > desktop at home. It should have 3 boot partitions: 16M FreeBSD 5, 16M > linux, 32M NTFS for Windows XP. The remaining wil be formatted with > FAT32 to be used as a common data for the 3 operating systems. > > Well, everything seemed to be fine. I copied the FreeBSD partition > from the previous installed disk with dump(8), and installed XP from > CDs. But suddenly, the data and NTFS partitions began to disappear. I > don't know exactly what were the steps used to crash the disk, but it > happened at least 3 times, after 3 full windows installs (which are not > quick, for my sadness). In the last one I could almost detect it. > > I finished the initial windows instalation, and booted into FreeBSD > to make sure the NTFS and FAT partitions were available. They seemed to > be. Then I reboot into windows, and it crashed, with a missing HAL.DLL. > Boot again into FreeBSD, and the NTFS partition still seemed ok. But I > gone into the \WINDOWS\system32, and did an ls. The kernel pushed some > errors with "bad magic" or something like that, and the file system > locked. Also, the boot information for the first FAT32 partition has > been completely destroyed, leaving it unreadable. > > The mainboard is an ASUS K8V, with 1G RAM. I'm running the 32 bit > version of FreeBSD, although it is an AMD64 machine. The 250G SATA disk > is on the promise RAID, and I have another PATA 120G on the promise > RAID, and a 40G PATA on standard IDE. > > I already had a problem with a previous ASUS board in which the > promise raid could not deal with disks bigger than 120G. The symptons > were very similar. Could this be the problem? Does somebody know if > FreeBSD or mount_ntfs has any kind of disk size limitation in this hardware? > > Oh, I did remember now that I was using mount_ntfs -o noatime, if > that matters. > > Thanks for any help, > > Jonny > > PS: Now it has been fully reformatted with no NTFS, using FAT32 instead. > But I'm afraid of getting into FreeBSD again in this machine. Please > help! :-( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > From - Mon