New Intel boards (was: Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?)

2006-08-21 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote: This errors are not driver or OS dependent such as they appear on FreeBSD as well on different Linux distros. Since not all controllers suffering of these errors it is maybe depending on the firmware or

Re: New Intel boards (was: Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?)

2006-08-21 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:10:53AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi, all! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote: This errors are not driver or OS dependent such as they appear on FreeBSD as well on different Linux distros. Since not all

Re: New Intel boards (was: Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?)

2006-08-21 Thread Konstantin Saurbier
Hi! Am 21.08.2006 um 09:10 schrieb Patrick M. Hausen: Hi, all! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote: This errors are not driver or OS dependent such as they appear on FreeBSD as well on different Linux distros. Since not all controllers suffering of these

Re: New Intel boards (was: Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?)

2006-08-21 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:22:06PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: Several users reported em(4) watchdog errors but I couldn't reproduce it on my system. A blind patch posted to net ML and I'd like to hear success/failure report. See

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote: Am 20.08.2006 um 18:20 schrieb Greg Byshenk: What is different is that this was with a 3Ware RAID controller -- which made removing/raconfiguring/rebuilding much easier -- but I was seeing the exact same errors. No your

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:38:55PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote: I can confirm the same behaviour with a ULi M1689/Newcastle Athlon64 based system running 6.1-RELEASE-p3 (i386). ad6 just detaches without warning and it takes a reboot to bring it back. atacontrol reinit has no effect. Tried

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Matt Dawson
On Monday 21 August 2006 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm the same behaviour with a ULi M1689/Newcastle Athlon64 based system running 6.1-RELEASE-p3 (i386). ad6 just detaches without warning and it takes a reboot to bring it back. atacontrol reinit has no effect. Tried the

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 21 August 2006 22:44, Matt Dawson wrote: atacontrol detach ata3; atacontrol attach ata3 did. Yes, that is the method for a controlled remove and reattach, a la hotplug SATA. AIUI, though, if the drive goes AWOL on its own you need to reinit the channel before issuing an atacontrol

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:14:16PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote: FWIW, the problem takes *far* longer to rear its head when the SATA controller has a PCI INT and IRQ to itself. Put a NIC onto a shared slot (a very Bad Thing [TM] as the BIOS simply maps the INT to a single IRQ and both

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Dominic Marks
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:14:16PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote: FWIW, the problem takes *far* longer to rear its head when the SATA controller has a PCI INT and IRQ to itself. Put a NIC onto a shared slot (a very Bad Thing [TM] as the BIOS simply maps the INT to

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Dominic Marks
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:14:16PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote: FWIW, the problem takes *far* longer to rear its head when the SATA controller has a PCI INT and IRQ to itself. Put a NIC onto a shared slot (a very Bad Thing [TM] as the BIOS simply maps the INT to

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, Dominic! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:40:17PM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: hw.pci3.13.INTA.irq=17 The `13' value is the device number, you can find this in dmesg, same for pciN. So I tried this: em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5 port 0x5000-0x501f mem

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Dominic Marks
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi, Dominic! On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:40:17PM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: hw.pci3.13.INTA.irq=17 The `13' value is the device number, you can find this in dmesg, same for pciN. So I tried this: em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5 port

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Matt Dawson wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm the same behaviour with a ULi M1689/Newcastle Athlon64 based system running 6.1-RELEASE-p3 (i386). ad6 just detaches without warning and it takes a reboot to bring it back. atacontrol reinit has no

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 21 August 2006 23:08, Dominic Marks wrote: You can use device.hints(5) to do this. I have the following in mine to force a RAID card and Sound card to share IRQ 17. You need to modify it to suit your environment. hw.pci3.13.INTA.irq=17 The `13' value is the device number, you

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Igor Robul wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 04:39:55PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: I upgraded to RELENG_6, changed all HW (whole servers and changed Seagate HHDs to Samsung so every piece of HW is different from time of my first post), but after one week I got the same error and system

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Matt Dawson
On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean different type of cables, or just another piece? I can't change cables by myself, servers are dedicated from provider, but as I can saw, they picked whole new machine from their HW storage and put new Samsung disk drives in.

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:38:55PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean different type of cables, or just another piece? I can't change cables by myself, servers are dedicated from provider, but as I can saw, they picked whole new

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Greg Byshenk wrote: [...] I am not sure if it is related, but... I experienced a similar sort of problem, although the details in my case are quite different. What was similar was that I would lose two ATA drives from an array, inexplicably. Reconfiguring the same drives and rebuilding would

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:51:29PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Greg Byshenk wrote: [...] This happened four times (with the same errors that have been discussed here), running 6.1 STABLE as of June 22. Before attempting to RMA the drives, I tried an updated kernel, 6.1 STABLE as of July

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Aug 19 15:11:20 track ntpd[456]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: ad6: FAILURE - device detached Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: subdisk6: detached Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: ad6: detached I think that's a

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Greg Byshenk wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:51:29PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Greg Byshenk wrote: [...] This happened four times (with the same errors that have been discussed here), running 6.1 STABLE as of June 22. Before attempting to RMA the drives, I tried an updated kernel,

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Jakubik
Miroslav Lachman wrote: I upgraded to RELENG_6, changed all HW (whole servers and changed Seagate HHDs to Samsung so every piece of HW is different from time of my first post), but after one week I got the same error and system reboot today: Aug 19 15:11:20 track ntpd[456]: kernel time sync

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-20 Thread Konstantin Saurbier
Am 20.08.2006 um 18:20 schrieb Greg Byshenk: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:38:55PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean different type of cables, or just another piece? I can't change cables by myself, servers are dedicated from

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-19 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Johan Ström wrote: [...] Usually when the box has been rebooted before the failed component has been rebuilt automaticly.. Solved with: $ gmirror forget $ gmirror insert gm0s1 ad4s1 And now its rebuilding ad4 again... Any new hints? Should i try RELENG_6 instead? I upgraded to RELENG_6,

Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

2006-08-19 Thread Igor Robul
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 04:39:55PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: I upgraded to RELENG_6, changed all HW (whole servers and changed Seagate HHDs to Samsung so every piece of HW is different from time of my first post), but after one week I got the same error and system Just a try - have you