Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:39:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Mike <mike@deadmime.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tyan Tiger + Promise Raid in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3B8B209B.D6BD3D4C@urx.com> References: <00e101c12f6d$8ebd0ea0$0201000a@panic>
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> 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
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