From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 21:40:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4EF37B407 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A09F1CD90238; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:39:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3B8B209B.D6BD3D4C@urx.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:39:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tyan Tiger + Promise Raid in FreeBSD References: <00e101c12f6d$8ebd0ea0$0201000a@panic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike wrote: > > Hey All, > > I have a machine, Tyan Tiger motherboard, dual 733's with the > promise ATA100 > raid controller built on. I'm using this in a setup with 2 40Gb > Western Digital drives > in a Raid 0 (mirrored) config. I set the machine up a while ago, so > it's running > FreeBSD 4.3-BETA (it was the newest version on the cvs tree). > > So, with that aside, I'm having these bad bad problems, where > any big writes/read > to the disks, are causing the machine to panic and reboot. Nothing > logged, no errors > just reboots. For example, I tried tar'ing up a 300(ish) meg > directory yesterday, and > it worked for about ~100 megs, then it rebooted. I thought maybe it > had something > to do with the fact I had softupdates enabled (softupdates with the > raid??).. so I > tried disabling that, with no change. > > Now, a friend of mine has the identical board, setup in the same > config (with > Quantum drives), but is running 4.4-RC. > > Does anybody know if there are any issues with FreeBSD 4.3-BETA > and the > promise controllers? (I'm just assuming that it is the controller, I > could be > completely wrong though). If it is, you can set the rate to pio using sysctl. Do a man sysctl and look for hw.atamodes and use the example to set your drives to pio mode. Your command will look something like sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio... A lot has changed in the ATA device driver. Kent > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Mike > > ps - I'm not actually on the list, so please CC to me!!! -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA It is hard to believe you are soaring with Eagles (las águilas) when you accept SPAM like a mouse (el ratón). mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message