Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 04:07:28 +0800 From: "Andrew Chan" <achan@achan.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATA READ command timeout (and worse) Message-ID: <014b01c34267$e5687a00$4200a8c0@goofy>
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While we are on this topic... I have been running 2 Seagate ATA66 disks (one on each channel) on a HighPoint HPT370 ATA100 controller (FreeBSD 4.7 and then 4.8) for more than a year and never had any problems. I recently built a new server with 2 Maxtor ATA133 80GB disks on a Promise Fasttrak 100/TX2 and have been having random timeout problems since. Sometime the system would be okay for a few days with no problems, even after doing a few "make world" runs. Sometime timeout problems showed up only minutes after a fresh install (I had been re-installing to try to debug the problem). When timeout occured, the ata driver took out the disk from the mirror array, and then either I am stupid or something is wierd with the Promise firmware, there just doesn't seem to be a good way to re-sync'ing array without major file system corruption and the system was toasted. Assumming the disks, cables and power supply are all okay, is timeout problems on Promise RAID cards still an existing and known issue experienced by others? Andrew achan _A_T_ achan.com
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