Re: Promise SATA 300 TX4

From: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf_at_stud.ntnu.no>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:18:02 +0200
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:03:28PM +0900, Nathan Butcher wrote:
> >I tried to roll back to right before the above mentioned change
> >Karsten (well, I assume it was him  :-)  ) noted on IRC that it might
> >be the cause of the problems since I have a similar controller, though
> >not exactly the same one, but it didn't fix the timeouts for me.
> 
> >For this server I have 3 disks in a graid3 (so no ZFS but the errors
> >are similar to what I have seen / heard about wrt. ZFS + ata use) and
> >I get timeouts several times a day which causes FreeBSD to loose
> >contact with one or more disks where I have to reboot before things
> >recover (usually FreeBSD panic's enough so the system reboots by
> >itself).
> 
> I'm certain that the issue with this card isn't limited to ZFS. It's
> been seen before in the 6.x series too.
> 
> I really would like to find out which code changes ruined the card's
> correct operation... if that could help the ata maintainer in some way.
> Unfortunately my csup-fu isn't that strong, otherwise I would send my
> source tree back to June 15th and analyse daily buildworlds from that
> date until I could pin-point the exact date and file changes that caused
> the problem all of us are seeing.

I have problems with this card in -CURRENT too. Details can be found here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/074960.html

I never bothered trying with earlier versions of -CURRENT, but it works good in
6.2.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen
Received on Mon Aug 13 2007 - 07:19:13 UTC

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