RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-04-03 Thread Wil Hatfield
2006 11:29 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues > From: "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am giving 6.1 a whirl. > In the first 5 minutes I have already noticed that there are some > obvious filesystem issues fixed. I ran a tar and compar

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-04-03 Thread Ville Lundberg
> From: "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am giving 6.1 a whirl. > In the first 5 minutes I have already noticed that there are some > obvious filesystem issues fixed. I ran a tar and compared the > speed to that on one of my 4.x boxes and low and behold they are > about the same. THANK GOD!

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-04-01 Thread Wil Hatfield
I did a make -j80 buildworld and this is about the worse that it got. The build finished without freezes of any kind. last pid: 98605; load averages: 19.98, 14.50, 10.16 up 0+00:52:34 15:54:35 45 processes: 1 running, 43 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 14.8% user, 0.0% nice, 5.1% system, 0

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-04-01 Thread Wil Hatfield
eebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Friday 31 March 2006 21:28, Wil Hatfield wrote: > Beto, > > > fair enough, but you should be able to use some of the > > performance testing tools to hammer the server before pushing it > > live. &

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-04-01 Thread wc_fbsd
At 05:52 PM 3/31/2006, fbsd_user wrote: Hay I am ran ata HD on 5.4 and now on 6.0 with out any problems. Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad. You didn't say if you're running plain [parrallel] ATA or Serial ATA. Nearly two years ago I tried to replace our Samba file ser

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:28:09 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fair enough, but you should be able to use some of the performance > > testing tools to hammer the server before pushing it live. > > Suggestions for tools that REALLY hammer? if it's going to be a webserver, use a

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
I'm not that frustrated. ;-) -- Wil Hatfield -Original Message- From: Anish Mistry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Friday 31 March 2006 21:28, Wil Hatfield wrote: &

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Anish Mistry
ake -j100 buildworld" is always fun :) > > > -- > Wil Hatfield > > > > -Original Message- > From: Norberto Meijome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:17 PM > To: Wil Hatfield > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ATA D

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
March 31, 2006 5:17 PM To: Wil Hatfield Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:00:34 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beto, > > I am currently trying to upgrade one without customers on it to 6.0. > B

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:00:34 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beto, > > I am currently trying to upgrade one without customers on it to 6.0. > But as was the problem with 5.4 the problems don't show up until the > machine is under high load. So even under 6 I won't have a clue i

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
: David Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:54 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: Wil Hatfield Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Mar 31, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Wil Hatfield wrote: > So are you saying that I have 5 new drives (a week old) all with > the same > prob

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
ssage- From: Norberto Meijome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 4:48 PM To: Wil Hatfield Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:43:35 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I am just nervous ab

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 31, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Wil Hatfield wrote: So are you saying that I have 5 new drives (a week old) all with the same problems? And S.M.A.R.T doesn't show any of the issues. I need to go play the lottery. ;-) Whats so strange about the notion of 5 identical new drives out of the sa

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:43:35 -0800 "Wil Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok I am just nervous about going to 6.x and putting these customers > through this not once more, but twice when I have to go back to 4.x. Sorry for asking the obvious, but why not try with 6 without any customers on t

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
3:50 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: Wil Hatfield Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:52 PM, fbsd_user wrote: > Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad. I agree. Its the classic symptoms of cable, power supply noise, and/ or HD CPU going sour. I have a brand n

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:52 PM, fbsd_user wrote: Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad. I agree. Its the classic symptoms of cable, power supply noise, and/ or HD CPU going sour. I have a brand new drive here with similar problems. And its twin from the same batch without.

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
e the problem. Three outages today. Maybe it is time to look into the penguin. -- Wil Hatfield -Original Message- From: Anish Mistry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:34 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Friday 31 M

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Anish Mistry
_DMA issues for 5.x. > > Cheers, > > -- > Wil Hatfield > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anish > Mistry Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:29 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Wil Hatfield - Hype

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
- From: fbsd_user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:52 PM To: Wil Hatfield; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues Hay I am ran ata HD on 5.4 and now on 6.0 with out any problems. Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad. -Original

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread fbsd_user
Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues I was afraid Soren was going to be mentioned. Well shouldn't the FreeBSD 5.4 release information state that it isn't recommended for machines with ATA drives? I really have no way of downgrading to 5.3 without losing a couple hundred customers over it. Bu

RE: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Wil Hatfield
e good old ATA drive issues first? Cheers, -- Wil Hatfield -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anish Mistry Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:29 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wil Hatfield - HyperConX Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues On Frida

Re: ATA Drive Issues

2006-03-31 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 31 March 2006 17:08, Wil Hatfield - HyperConX wrote: > What is the problem with 5.4 and ATA drives? I am running the > latest release of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p11. I have two basic ATA > drives, no raids and no scsi anything. Every now and then under a > bit of load the harddrive freezes w