Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:45:53 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Showstopper ATA bug in 6.1-PRE? Message-ID: <43EB55A1.9040405@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060209144250.GB4874@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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> <20060209144250.GB4874@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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.. :-) Doesn't matter, ATA is the same on both... -Søren
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