Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 00:44:55 +0100 From: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Re: ATA READ command timeout (and worse) Message-ID: <003401c34286$460d6640$476f6850@workstation> References: <014b01c34267$e5687a00$4200a8c0@goofy>
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Andrew Chan wrote: > 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. !Never touch arrays after they have been configured for an installed system! > 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? HighPoint chipset ATA-RAID controllers work fine when they are onboard - as example, on an Abit AD7-RAID mainboard -. When they are connected to PCI bus like on Promise boards, it's often a circus. I don't know why, but be happy: on Linux is much worse. We all have to choose among the complications and the costs of the U160 or U320 SCSI at the 'shiny' side, and the apparent simplicity with a lot of lacks and problems of the ATA UDMA at the 'dark' side. In my opinion, forget SATA at all, but mine is only an intuition of a 'tecno-perfectionist-sensitive'... > Andrew VITTORI
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