Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:57:40 +0100 From: Sebastian Holmqvist <sebastian.holmqvist@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc Message-ID: <52aaba24041108095717087968@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, I'm running a FBSD 5.2.1-p11 server on a 350 PII. 1 IDE is plugged in on the motherboard. The other two Seagate Barracuda 200 GB SATA discs are plugged in on the controllercard. I get bad geometry in sysinstall (which is apparently a bug as far as I know from searching old mail-lists). Fdisk states that 387621/16/63 is wrong. Inside is changes to 24321/255/63. ST3200822AS is the product name for the hard-drive. http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,599,00= .html is the datasheet. My problem is when I transfer large amounts of data to any of the discs. WIthout warning, the whole system absolutely freeze up and I have to manually reboot. When I then run fsck it reports on several problems, among them a SUPERBLK ERROR. I take it that's not good :p The disc has to be formatted and we go again. The first time it happened, I acquired a fan since they seemed a tad hot.. They were pushing 60=B0C. They are now around 35=B0C idle. High load is probably putting them around 45=B0C I believe. These are the theories I've come up with: 1) Both my discs are bad (brand new when I bought them) 2) The setup with the controller card and the motherboard doesn't work 3) FBSD can't handle the data-transfer very well after a while. Could it be that the data goes to the IDE and then to the SATA-discs? Thanks in advance, I really don't know how to handle this. Or, well I'm gonna try updating to 5.3 in a couple of days, since they have better SATA-handling I've been told. ------------ Sebastian Holmqvist
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?52aaba24041108095717087968>