From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 08:38:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632CF16A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:38:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from schubert.byrnehq.com (dsl-33-12.dsl.netsource.ie [213.79.33.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E1143D1F for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:38:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tonyb@byrnehq.com) Received: from localhost (mauer.directski.com. [212.147.140.194]) by schubert.byrnehq.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8E8cEZH004282; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:38:15 GMT (envelope-from tonyb@byrnehq.com) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:37:56 +0100 From: Tony Byrne Organization: ByrneHQ X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1489937739.20040914093756@byrnehq.com> To: Eric Gatenby In-Reply-To: <1095131646.414661fef24e5@webmail.gatenby.org> References: <1095131646.414661fef24e5@webmail.gatenby.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ByrneHQ-SA-Hits: -4.2 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:10:31 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA/SATA lockups X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tony Byrne List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:38:06 -0000 Hello Eric, Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 4:14:06 AM, you wrote: EG> I'm been having a strange problem with various builds of FreeBSD - 5.2-RELEASE EG> (at least) and up to 5.3-BETA4. Random hard lockups are occuring when writing EG> to two separate SATA drives. ... EG> I don't have much hard evidence EG> and information to provide. How can I go about gathering more information? I've EG> tried enabling WITNESS and other kernel debugging options, but no extra EG> debugging data was produced. ... EG> Any suggestions would be appreciated. I experienced the same problem with current a few months ago, with an Intel ICH5 chipset and an 80Gb SATA drive. I was virtually guaranteed a hard lockup at least once a day during work hours and every morning I'd arrive in to a frozen box. There was no pattern to the lockups. I "solved" the problem by moving to a non-SATA drive and removing the SATA drive from the system. Does anyone know the current status of ICH5 support? I remember a number of mails to the list about ICH5 issues, but don't remember if these were ever addressed. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Byrne