From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 17:57:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9FD16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:57:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2039243D53 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:57:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sebastian.holmqvist@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so328020rnf for ; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:57:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e4ZnYpQmDm6EG+y0KYP35HwtbfRZ9tDnW9Pfq9NYsiFmBar6G1jpvzYBWq9abzZlY8zJg+jobIwzJrdGHu0h2BstTHwiTAcqc+P+vc97Jj0oxTA+qSGX0DiqCQdJB+xC0Zd4b0jvqiyy7GOKJdA6hQSePyeoDq/ZrEtTBjD+qZk= Received: by 10.38.96.20 with SMTP id t20mr62119rnb; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.14.10 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:57:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52aaba24041108095717087968@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:57:40 +0100 From: Sebastian Holmqvist To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sebastian Holmqvist List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:57:48 -0000 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