From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 13:35:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792E737B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:35:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A7F743E77 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 61507 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Nov 2002 21:35:31 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:35:31 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running In-Reply-To: <3DD8A70A.3060900@obluda.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a couple BP6's running -stable and was having hard lock problems under heavy IO until I dropped back to ATA33 on the drives (I moved them to the onboard Intel controller instead of the HPT366). sos@ informed me that the HPT366 has a buggy DMA controller and that ATA66 on them wouldn't work. After moving to ATA33 in early 2001, I haven't had any more hard locks. This was under -stable, but you might want to check your ATA drive setup before proceeding. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message