My old workstation finally died and replaced by a Dell Vostro 420.
Since the hard drives on the old machine were fine, I decided to throw
them into the new machine. The new machine only had SATA onboard, so I added a
Promise controller to the mix:
atap...@pci0:5:3:0: class=0x018000 card=0x3375105a chip=0x3375105a rev=0x020
vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc'
device = 'PDC20375(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX2plus Controller'
class = mass storage
It has two SATA connectors and a single PATA connector. I had two PATA
drives, so that worked out fine, and I hooked them up. The master was
the master in the old machine and the slave was the slave in the old
machine. No need to change anything around.
At first everything was fine. I booted up (using GENERIC, as I nearly
always do) and ran for a while. The machine locked up and I decided to
bring the machine up in single user mode and run an fsck. It ran just
fine on / /tmp /var and /usr (all on the master drive, ad14). I then
ran the fsck on ad15s1a (/home). Unfortunately, I almost immediately
started receiving 'WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue
timeout' messages (along with various other SETFEATURES messages).
They were proceeded by both ad14 and ad15 (though, as I said, ad14
fsck'ed fine).
This continued for 30 minutes before I gave up and rebooted. When the
machine came back up, ad15 had no partition table or disklabel. And
fdisk refused to create a partition.
Assuming that the drive had gone bad, I swapped it out with another
drive. Created a new partition, and labelled it. Restored /home from
backups. It ran for about a week, but locked up on me today (as
before, when doing something 3D, so I do not believe the backups are
related to disk activity), and I decided to manually run a fsck on the
system. Unfortunately, I received the same SETFEATURES messages as
before when fsck'ing /home. Instead of letting it run for 30 minutes, I
stopped after the messages flashed by the screen. I rebooted. The
partition table is hosed and there is no disklabel.
When I go to create a new partition (per the directions
in /usr/share/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html, which is what I used
without any problems when I threw the new drive into the system), this
is what I happens:
[ r...@memory - ~ ]: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad15 bs=1k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1024 bytes transferred in 0.000118 secs (8676702 bytes/sec)
[ r...@memory - ~ ]: fdisk -BI ad15
******* Working on device /dev/ad15 *******
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
fdisk: Geom not found: "ad15"
[ r...@memory - ~ ]: bsdlabel -B -w ad15s1 auto
bsdlabel: /dev/ad15s1: No such file or directory
And, indeed, there is still only /dev/ad15.
So I have a few questions...
Why do I keep losing my data?
How can I partition and label either one of these drives?
Some system information:
[ r...@memory - ~ ]: uname -a
FreeBSD memory.visualtech.com 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #5: Fri May 8
14:02:01 EDT 2009 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
i386
[ r...@memory - ~ ]: pciconf -vl
hos...@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x02821028 chip=0x2e208086 rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = bridge
subclass = HOST-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x02821028 chip=0x2e218086 rev=0x03
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
uh...@pci0:0:26:0: class=0x0c0300 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a378086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
uh...@pci0:0:26:1: class=0x0c0300 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a388086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
uh...@pci0:0:26:2: class=0x0c0300 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a398086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
eh...@pci0:0:26:7: class=0x0c0320 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a3c8086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
pc...@pci0:0:28:0: class=0x060400 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a408086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:28:1: class=0x060400 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a428086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
pc...@pci0:0:28:2: class=0x060400 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a448086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
uh...@pci0:0:29:0: class=0x0c0300 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a348086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
uh...@pci0:0:29:1: class=0x0c0300 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a358086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
uh...@pci0:0:29:2: class=0x0c0300 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a368086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
eh...@pci0:0:29:7: class=0x0c0320 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a3a8086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = USB
pc...@pci0:0:30:0: class=0x060401 card=0x02821028 chip=0x244e8086 rev=0x90
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801 Family (ICH2/3/4/4/5/5/6/7/8/9,63xxESB) Hub Interface
to PCI Bridge'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
is...@pci0:0:31:0: class=0x060100 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a168086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-ISA
atap...@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x010601 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a228086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = mass storage
subclass = SATA
no...@pci0:0:31:3: class=0x0c0500 card=0x02821028 chip=0x3a308086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = serial bus
subclass = SMBus
vgap...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x30001002 chip=0x5b631002 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'Radeon X550 Series'
class = display
subclass = VGA
vgap...@pci0:1:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x30011002 chip=0x5b731002 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'Radeon X550 Series - Secondary'
class = display
atap...@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x010185 card=0x02821028 chip=0x2363197b rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'JMicron Technology Corp'
device = 'JMB36X PCIe-to-SATA-300/IDE RAID Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = ATA
r...@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x02821028 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
f...@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x000c8086 chip=0x12298086 rev=0x08
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82550/1/7/8/9 EtherExpress PRO/100(B) Ethernet Adapter'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
emu10...@pci0:5:1:0: class=0x040100 card=0x80641102 chip=0x00021102 rev=0x0a
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Creative Technology LTD.'
device = 't4780010004541 Sound Blaster Live! (Also Live! 5.1) - OEM
from DELL - CT4780'
class = multimedia
subclass = audio
no...@pci0:5:1:1: class=0x098000 card=0x00201102 chip=0x70021102 rev=0x0a
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Creative Technology LTD.'
device = 'EMU10000 Game Port'
class = input device
atap...@pci0:5:3:0: class=0x018000 card=0x3375105a chip=0x3375105a rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc'
device = 'PDC20375(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX2plus Controller'
class = mass storage
[ r...@memory - ~ ]: vmstat
procs memory page disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad14 ad15 in sy cs us
sy id
0 0 0 194M 2916M 110 0 1 0 91 0 0 0 119 2024 952 0 0
100
Thanks :-)
Adam
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