On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Marty Faltesek wrote: > >> I could need some help and advice to get a working boot/root disk. >> >> Technical data: >> ASUS M2N32 WS Professional / Phenom 9600 / 8GB >> WD Raptor 150GB >> Opensolaris NV81 >> ... >> >> This combination didn't work out of the box, but now I'm running a "beta >> BIOS" and things seem to be OK, as long as I don't access the boot disk to >> much, like trying to create a lu or install additional packages, then the >> disk gets "off-line" and unindentified and the system processes that need to >> access the disk hangs. >> >> A fried who have the same MB but with a Athlon X2 processor and is running >> with Opensolaris NV71 have a not the same problem. >> >> When I have been looking for software differences I noticed that on my >> friends machine with nv71 the disk driver is cmdk and on my machine with nv81 >> I have nv_sata as the disk driver. >> >> One thing I would like to test but don't know if possible and if so how, is >> to force my nv81 to use the cmdk instaed of nv_sata. Is this doable? >> >> Is there any other thing I could test to narrow down the problem to either a >> software or hardware problem? >> >> If there is a software problem any tips on any w/o that I could test? > > > check /var/adm/messages or the msgbuf and if you see the following > message: > > Feb 19 18:27:39 nvsata-2 nv_sata: [ID 517869 kern.warning] WARNING: > nv_sata inst 0 port 0: excessive interrupt processing. Disabling port > int_status=1 clear=0 > > Then this is the bug you are seeing: > > 6662881 nv_sata: systems with MCP55 nVidia SATA controller hang during > contiguous short writes > > If so I have a test binary I could send to you.
I have seen something like that scrolling away up on my 24-row cosole. But don't remeber exactly. Later the cosole id displaying a write failure, just before the machine hangs. Nothing of this seem to make it to any messages-file. I will try to capture more of the console output. For info: I have installed and tested the nv_stata from nv82, after that I read about a problem with disable/enable write-cahce (filed for a Hitachi disk, 6623404), but with no luck. I also forgot to mension that I have been forced to disbale, intrd, when I thought that I had similiar problems as bug 6658565. Which also writes similar error messages as yours above. Which I can't find on opensolaris.org, 6662881. Anyway, I would be more than happy to try your test binary. Just send it to me or give an URL where I can downlod it. tia, /stefan _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
