Re: [Soekris] Fwd: mSATA failure on 6501 w/ OpenBSD 5.0
Do you have a way to reproduce this? I have a 6501 with 2GB msata and haven't seen the problem here. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:45:41PM -0800, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote: Greetings, Any thoughts as to how to get around this - it's only been up for a few days. Rebooting my home router every 24 hours is not spouse endearing behavior :) Chris On 28Nov2011, at 14.30, Chris Cappuccio wrote: here is the key error message. it means your whole ahci disk has disappeared (and anything you can still run is happening from cache.) -- ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. ahci0: failed to reset port during timeout handling, disabling it -- likely a reboot will fix it. this is a known problem with ahci driver and intel ahci controllers. the failed to reset port and softreset slot was still active problems become really obvious once you start maxing out disks on an ahci controller with a softraid array. they rarely present problems in normal use! but, the SSD sata drive may evoke different behavior for some reason. i think continuous runs of iogen over a RAID1 array might bring out similar issues all by itself, even with regular hard disks dragonflybsd's port of openbsd's ahci driver has incorporated several of workarounds for problems directly related to this. (reset this when that happens, etc..) that might be a good place to start looking, if you can easily reproduce the problem then you would know quickly when a ported fix from their driver has helped. -- f f /g ? Check my PGP key here: https://www.asgaard.org/~cdl/cdl.asc Current vCard here: https://www.asgaard.org/~cdl/cdl.vcf
Re: [Soekris] Fwd: mSATA failure on 6501 w/ OpenBSD 5.0
here is the key error message. it means your whole ahci disk has disappeared (and anything you can still run is happening from cache.) -- ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. ahci0: failed to reset port during timeout handling, disabling it -- likely a reboot will fix it. this is a known problem with ahci driver and intel ahci controllers. the failed to reset port and softreset slot was still active problems become really obvious once you start maxing out disks on an ahci controller with a softraid array. they rarely present problems in normal use! but, the SSD sata drive may evoke different behavior for some reason. i think continuous runs of iogen over a RAID1 array might bring out similar issues all by itself, even with regular hard disks dragonflybsd's port of openbsd's ahci driver has incorporated several of workarounds for problems directly related to this. (reset this when that happens, etc..) that might be a good place to start looking, if you can easily reproduce the problem then you would know quickly when a ported fix from their driver has helped.
Re: [Soekris] Fwd: mSATA failure on 6501 w/ OpenBSD 5.0
Christopher LILJENSTOLPE [soek...@cdl.asgaard.org] wrote: Greetings, Any thoughts as to how to get around this - it's only been up for a few days. Rebooting my home router every 24 hours is not spouse endearing behavior :) port over some workarounds from dragonfly, or just figure out what is causing enough disk access to trigger this behavior and use a different machine for it -- There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. - E. Hemingway
Re: [Soekris] Fwd: mSATA failure on 6501 w/ OpenBSD 5.0
Greetings, Any thoughts as to how to get around this - it's only been up for a few days. Rebooting my home router every 24 hours is not spouse endearing behavior :) Chris On 28Nov2011, at 14.30, Chris Cappuccio wrote: here is the key error message. it means your whole ahci disk has disappeared (and anything you can still run is happening from cache.) -- ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. ahci0: failed to reset port during timeout handling, disabling it -- likely a reboot will fix it. this is a known problem with ahci driver and intel ahci controllers. the failed to reset port and softreset slot was still active problems become really obvious once you start maxing out disks on an ahci controller with a softraid array. they rarely present problems in normal use! but, the SSD sata drive may evoke different behavior for some reason. i think continuous runs of iogen over a RAID1 array might bring out similar issues all by itself, even with regular hard disks dragonflybsd's port of openbsd's ahci driver has incorporated several of workarounds for problems directly related to this. (reset this when that happens, etc..) that might be a good place to start looking, if you can easily reproduce the problem then you would know quickly when a ported fix from their driver has helped. -- f f /g ? Check my PGP key here: https://www.asgaard.org/~cdl/cdl.asc Current vCard here: https://www.asgaard.org/~cdl/cdl.vcf
