From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 21:44:10 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 A2E3A16A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:44:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077C943D46 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:44:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.142] (spider.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.142]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k18Li5P9025400; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:44:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Message-ID: <43EA6625.2070106@deepcore.dk> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:44:05 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060130) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte References: <20060208194603.GA689@freebie.xs4all.nl> <43EA5C50.5020804@deepcore.dk> <20060208213704.GA703@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060208213704.GA703@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.16 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 21:44:10 -0000 Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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 ;-) Well, the good thing is that I can reproduce the error here, the bad thing is that it slipped through testing on -current... Oh, well, I'll look into it ASAP... -Søren