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, >=20 > Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 4:14:06 AM, you wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > ... >=20 > EG> Any suggestions would be appreciated. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I "solved" the problem by moving to a non-SATA drive and removing the > SATA drive from the system. >=20 > 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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