Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:27:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks Message-ID: <20060217132730.GA53155@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060217121659.GO3342@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20060215231911.GB42943@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060216190512.GA47748@freebie.xs4all.nl> <Pine.SOC.4.61.0602162322290.969@tea.blinkenlights.nl> <20060216225244.GC49268@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060217121659.GO3342@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:17:00PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote.. > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:52:44PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:23:11PM +0100, Sten Spans wrote.. > > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > >On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote.. > > > >>Folks, > > > >> > > > >>I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed > > > >>related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L. Test installs > > > >>on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk > > > >>fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't > > > >>start or similar. I got: > > > >> > > > >>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a > > > >>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.6: Unsupported relocation type > > > >>1611047936 > > > >>in non-PLT relocations > > > >> > > > >>Observed on one DS10 and one DS10L. The problem does not > > > >>occur when you use a SCSI disk (which I typically do so I missed this > > > >>before). > > > >> > > > >>Those of you who own this machine type and have a spare IDE drive, > > > >>can you please test it? Other reports for different system models > > > >>are interesting too of course. > > > > > > > >A check of 5.5-BETA1 would be interesting too. > > > > > > I'll give it a go this weekend on my ds10 > > > (which also normally runs scsi :) > > > > Looks like it is not only DS10, my 164SX has similar probs as well. > > 5.5-BETA1 and 6.1-BETA1 have it. In total we have seen it on 2 DS10L, > > one DS10 and a 164SX now. SCSI is just fine. > > Interesting - after an Update of my PC164 from an 5.1 or even older to > a recent 5.x I noticed lot of mysterious filesystem corruptions that > did not went away after updating to 6-STABLE. > Since this is basicly a SCSI machine I moved the IDE disks to an x86. > I always had the impression of data corruption on those IDE disks, but > after the update things went much worse so there wasn't any doubt about > a real problem somewhere. > IIRC even fsck -n output was different between multiple runs. > Disk speed before and after the update had a major difference, before > it was something around 2M/s and after the update I got >10M/s. > My assumption at that time was a cabeling problem, which was triggered > by the larger speed. I cannot speak for the 164sx as I did not have that in house at the time of 5.1 but my DS10 has at some point worked fine with ATA drives. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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