Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:11:18 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@mypost.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ad5gb@myway.com Cc: me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name Subject: Re: 5.3 interrupt storm (atapicam) and I/O error Message-ID: <200501301011.21489.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> In-Reply-To: <20050129043035.D75613A2E@mprdmxin.myway.com> References: <20050129043035.D75613A2E@mprdmxin.myway.com>
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On Saturday 29 January 2005 05:30, ad5gb wrote: > Greetings, > > Not sure what to think about this yet but it definitely has something to do > with having my ATAPI CD connected to the 2nd channel of my Promise Ultra > 133 TX2 adapter (PDC20269). If I disconnect the cable from channel 2 the > kernel will boot with atapicam enabled. I don't seem to be able to use my > motherboard's embedded EIDE controller with the Promise adapter installed. > I don't see any obvious I/O or interrupt conflicts, but I also don't have > too much control over it with this old SuperMicro mainboard. > > Seems odd to me though, since this all worked on 5.2.1. Open for > suggestions, but for now I'm going to try to track down the SCSI I/O error > problem so I can get some CD burning done (critical system backups) and > then I'll see if I can try to figure out if this is an EIDE driver issue or > a atapicam issue. > > If anyone comes up with anything in the meantime... please YELL! > > > Kind regards > > -- > Randall D. DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) > > Powered by FreeBSD! > The Power to Serve > > > > --- On Fri 01/28, Daniel S. Haischt < me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name > > wrote: From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto: me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name] > To: olivier.certner@free.fr > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:37:21 +0100 > Subject: Re: 5.3 interrupt storm (atapicam) and I/O error > > I don't know whether this is related to your issue,<br>but on one of my > boxes I am also getting an interrupt<br>storm with atapicam > enabled.<br><br>On FreeBSD 5.2.1 I did not experience any > interrupt<br>storm issues, even if using the same hardware > configuration.<br><br>Have a look at the attached text file for a > detailed<br>description ...<br><br>Olivier Certner schrieb:<br>> Hi,<br>> > <br>> Could you give a look at my post dated 04/01/2005 entitled "Freeze > with CAM <br>> (using KsCD)"? Maybe we have fallen on the same kind of bug > concerning <br>> atapicam.<br>> <br>> If you have KDE, maybe you should > try to reproduce the problem I had. I've no <br>> time to test your > scenario (the one with the EIDE drive, I don't have SCSI) <br>> now, but > I'll try to reproduce it at the beginning of next week, in order to <br>> > see if the freeze happens also on my computer.<br>> <br>> Hope this will > help us to progress on our issues.<br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> <br>> > Olivier<br>> _______ ________________________________________<br>> I am also having a shitload of problems on my newly installed 5.3 box (which was a happy camper under 4.x. I have a promise tx2 100 board. there are a pair of disks with a geom stripe over them, Under heavy i/o the system either freezes or crashes. I will have some time later next week to investigate but I am really inclined to use the time to revert to 4.11.
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