Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:42:50 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@deepcore.dk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Showstopper ATA bug in 6.1-PRE? Message-ID: <20060209144250.GB4874@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <43EB5393.5090502@deepcore.dk> References: <20060208194603.GA689@freebie.xs4all.nl> <43EA5C50.5020804@deepcore.dk> <20060208213704.GA703@freebie.xs4all.nl> <43EA6625.2070106@deepcore.dk> <20060208221056.GA1299@freebie.xs4all.nl> <43EB5393.5090502@deepcore.dk>
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:37:07PM +0100, Sren Schmidt wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:44:05PM +0100, Sren Schmidt wrote.. > >>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 <ATA_MASTER> > >>>>> > >>>>>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... > > > >Thank you Soren! > > OK, had a few this afternoon, could you try this patch and let me know > if it helps, at least it makes the problem go away on my testbed.. Is this relative to HEAD or RELENG_6? I cannot / will not go to HEAD with this machine (my main production box.. :-) Wilko
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