Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:56:07 -0500 From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: Re: HowTo?: Current -> RELENG_6_0 Patch for "semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !!" issue with Promise Fasttrak Raid 0/1 Card Message-ID: <4411D9D7.7060409@pubnix.net> In-Reply-To: <20060310154305.GA29639@uk.tiscali.com> References: <4410F0BE.6050600@pubnix.net> <200603100604.48535.thierry@herbelot.com> <441112DB.9060907@pubnix.net> <20060310154305.GA29639@uk.tiscali.com>
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Thanks.
I've got confused and taught RELENG_6 was 6.0-PRERELEASE.
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In this summary you'll find more details with 6.1-PRERELEASE and the
WD1600JS's that I'm using with the Fasttrak 2300 in RAID1.
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A little thread about those drive:
http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive12-2005-8-220010.html
As you can see my drives are similar except for last number in
device model and that the firmware are totally different.
(A check with WDC show no way to upgrade/download firmware... argh!)
Also they are capable of "automatic acoustic management" but its
disable... thus no timeout problem with raid controller.
----- ad4
device model WDC WD1600JS-00MHB1
serial number WD-WCANM2041663
firmware revision 10.02E01
----- ad6
device model WDC WD1600JS-00MHB0
serial number WD-WCANM2124370
firmware revision 02.01C03
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# atacontrol cap ad4
Protocol Serial ATA v1.0
Serial ATA II
device model WDC WD1600JS-00MHB1
serial number WD-WCANM2041663
firmware revision 10.02E01
cylinders 16383
heads 16
sectors/track 63
lba supported 268435455 sectors
lba48 supported 312581808 sectors
dma supported
overlap not supported
Feature Support Enable Value Vendor
write cache yes yes
read ahead yes yes
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) no - 0/0x00
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) no no 0/0x00
SMART yes yes
microcode download yes yes
security yes no
power management yes yes
advanced power management no no 0/0x00
automatic acoustic management yes no 254/0xFE 128/0x80
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Thore are the warnings that now come up instead of freezing like in
6.0-RELEASE:
(only once, all at the same time, and early during this 2h of disk
stress test)
ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout -
completing request directly
ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout -
completing request directly
ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout -
completing request directly
ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout -
completing request directly
ad6: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly
ad6: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=90088639
Looks like the driver may be changing the drive features
configuration for optimization during heavy I/O or maybe a bad block...
You'll let me know.
Have fun...
Brian Candler wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:47:07AM -0500, Alain Hebert wrote:
>
>
>> I looked/search everywhere for a thread. I just used the wrong
>>keywords it seems.
>>
>> I'll try -current tomorrow... I hope its stable enought for production.
>>
>>
>
>What you want is RELENG_6 (aka 6-STABLE). That gets you tracking the code
>base which will end up shortly as 6.1-RELEASE, not the bleeding edge
>-CURRENT.
>
>You can then continue tracking RELENG_6 and you'll incrementally get all the
>changes which will end up in 6.2, 6.3 etc.
>
>Regards,
>
>Brian.
>
>
>
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Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net
PubNIX Inc.
P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7
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