From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 21:37:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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 D177A16A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:37:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3912543D45 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:37:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k18Lb6Ai065138; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:37:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k18Lb5Pa000738; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:37:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k18Lb5aD000737; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:37:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:37:04 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Message-ID: <20060208213704.GA703@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20060208194603.GA689@freebie.xs4all.nl> <43EA5C50.5020804@deepcore.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43EA5C50.5020804@deepcore.dk> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Showstopper ATA bug in 6.1-PRE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:37:10 -0000 On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:02:08PM +0100, Sren Schmidt wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >Hi Soren, > > > >I just went to 6.1-PRE on my main machine, coming from 6.0-STABLE > >of roughly end of december. > > > >And I hit some stuff that really worries me: > > > >- the freshly built kernel keels over with (hand transcribed): > > > >ata3: reiniting channel SATA connect ... > >SATA connected > >sata_connect_devices 0x1 > > > >ad6: req=0xC35ba0c8 SETFEATURES SETTRANSFERMODE semaphore timeout > >!! DANGER Will RObinson !! > > > >(... is where I cannot read my own handwriting, it scrolled quite fast on > >the screen..) > > > >Boot device is a SATA RAID1 on a Promise 2300. > > Hmm, that should not happen. Could you try to backstep just ATA to > before the MFC, that is 24/1/06 and let me know if that helps please ? First impression is that the problem is gone. None of the previously reported errors are seen. I am running a level 0 dump from disk to disk to see if the box remains stable. Given that this is my primary machine I sure hope it will be :-) > >Another snag is that my ad10 disk on 6.0-STABLE suddenly became ad12 on > >6.1-PRE > > Hmm that is because there is only 2 ports on your promise which is now > correctly identified, before it was errounsly found as 3 ports. Ah, OK. I would suggest a note to the Release Note writers would be a good thing, devices changing location after an upgrade in the -stable branch is unnerving ;-) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org