From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 4 8: 1:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB7737B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx6.mail.ru (mx6.mail.ru [194.67.57.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A04443E65 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from borisnicolaich@mail.ru) Received: from drweb by mx6.mail.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim MX.6) id 17xTx2-000EyB-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 19:01:12 +0400 Received: from [193.178.159.216] (helo=fulano) by mx6.mail.ru with esmtp (Exim SMTP.6) id 17xTx0-000Ew7-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 19:01:11 +0400 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 19:01:13 +0400 From: Boris Smostavretsky X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: borisnicolaich@mail.ru X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <171993085.20021004190113@mail.ru> To: Keith Mitchell Subject: Re: ATA problems in 4.7-RC In-Reply-To: <20021003165502.GA2402@weenix.guru.org> References: <20021003165502.GA2402@weenix.guru.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Envelope-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Keith, I have the same problem with a 8GB Seagate drive on an old P2-266 (Asus p2l97a) system. I've also noticed that it happens as if HDD was trying to get into 'sleep' mode - it never occurs when HDD is intensively used, instead the drive stops spinning and HDD led is lid permanently. Any power saving/sleep functions are off in BIOS setup. After a few seconds READ or WRITE timeout messages is displayed, OS tries to reset it, fails, and removes from the configuration. It takes about a minute or two, after which the computer becomes operable but with no input/output access to ad. Constantly reading/writing to the device usually (but not always) keeps the problem away. The problem appeared after upgrading to 4.7. Downgrading back to 4.6.2 did not help, which is quite strange, maybe I did not recompile something? Or perhaps, I had an older 4.6.2 before. you wrote: Keith Mitchell> I just purchased a new WD 180GB ATA-100 disk drive for my FreeBSD machine Keith Mitchell> and am having problems getting the drive working correctly. Originally Keith Mitchell> I had this drive attached to the onboard IDE controller on my MB Keith Mitchell> (Asus TUSLC-2) but had problems so I installed the promise ATA100TX2 Keith Mitchell> controller card that came with the system. This made the problems not Keith Mitchell> show up as often, but they are definately still there. Keith Mitchell> I am running RELENG_4 from 9/23 and it identifies itself as 4.7-RC. The Keith Mitchell> problems I am seeing are READ timeout error messages followed by an Keith Mitchell> error message saying that the identifies to the drive timed out. At this Keith Mitchell> point in time the activity LED to the controller card is lit solidly and Keith Mitchell> either the system is frozen or it is still responding but all I/Os fail Keith Mitchell> with input/output errors. Eventually the system will reboot but when this Keith Mitchell> happens it often doesn't find the drive anymore and I have to power cycle Keith Mitchell> the computer to get things going again. Keith Mitchell> Currently this drive is the ONLY drive attached to the promise controller Keith Mitchell> and it is configured as an only drive (no slave present) via jumpers. Keith Mitchell> I've tried this same drive in my mac (behind an Oxford 911 firewire bridge) Keith Mitchell> and it seems to work ok over there. Keith Mitchell> Attached is the output from 'dmesg' and 'atacontrol cap' for the device. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message