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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:34:29 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Tony Byrne <tonyb@byrnehq.com>
Cc:        Eric Gatenby <eric@gatenby.org>
Subject:   Re: ATA/SATA lockups
Message-ID:  <4146E555.9080709@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <1489937739.20040914093756@byrnehq.com>
References:  <1095131646.414661fef24e5@webmail.gatenby.org> <1489937739.20040914093756@byrnehq.com>

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Tony Byrne wrote:
> Hello Eric,
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> Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 4:14:06 AM, you wrote:
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> 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 wh=
en writing
> EG> to two separate SATA drives.
>=20
> ...
>=20
> EG> I don't have much hard evidence
> EG> and information to provide. How can I go about gathering more infor=
mation? I've
> EG> tried enabling WITNESS and other kernel debugging options, but no e=
xtra
> EG> debugging data was produced.
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> ...
>=20
> EG> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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> 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.
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> I "solved" the problem by moving to a non-SATA drive and removing the
> SATA drive from the system.
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> Does anyone know the current status of ICH5 support?  I remember a numb=
er of
> mails to the list about ICH5 issues, but don't remember if these were
> ever addressed.

I fixed those long ago, thanks to Yahoo and FreeBSD Systems that kindly=20
sponsored HW to make that happen !!

-S=F8ren



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