on 23/05/2009 05:26 Alexander Motin said the following:
Hi.
Joe Karthauser wrote:
I spoke too soon. It must have just randomly booted, because it is now
hanging again. No amount of jiggling cables has made any difference.
Can you provide verbose boot messages of your system from the
Hi Kip,
I seriously don't understand what has happened. If I boot kernel.old I
still get the same problem. Very confusing. :(.
Joe
on 21/05/2009 19:28 Kip Macy said the following:
I have no idea what is happening. I think our best bet is having
someone with insight into ATA provide us with
Motin is your best bet in tracking down ATA problems.
Cheers,
Kip
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Joe Karthauser j...@freebsd.org wrote:
Hi Kip,
I seriously don't understand what has happened. If I boot kernel.old I still
get the same problem. Very confusing. :(.
Joe
on 21/05/2009
Hi Alexander,
I've love it if you were able to provide some insight into this problem.
I'm going to try switching sata cables around next to see if the problem
goes away if I disconnect some combination of bays.
Thanks,
Joe
on 22/05/2009 19:39 Kip Macy said the following:
Motin is your
This appears to have gone away now. I unplugged the bay that was causing
the trouble, and the system booted just fine on the remaining 4 drives.
Then I plugged the bay back in (live) and did an atacontrol
detach/attach on that bus (I wonder why I always have to do that). The
drive was seen,
Karthauser
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:45 PM
To: Alexander Motin
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Kip Macy
Subject: Re: Sudden wierd SATA problem on RELENG_7 (Re: ZFS hanging at
kernel boot now, but didn't before... (Re: ZFS MFC heads up))
This appears to have gone away now. I unplugged the bay
I spoke too soon. It must have just randomly booted, because it is now
hanging again. No amount of jiggling cables has made any difference.
:(.
Joe
on 22/05/2009 20:40 Joe Karthauser said the following:
Hi Alexander,
I've love it if you were able to provide some insight into this problem.
Hi.
Joe Karthauser wrote:
I spoke too soon. It must have just randomly booted, because it is now
hanging again. No amount of jiggling cables has made any difference.
Can you provide verbose boot messages of your system from the beginning
up to the problem? Especially, all related to the ATA.
Hmm, I've had a bit of a miserable afternoon trying to fight my RELENG_7
server, which now doesn't boot. :(.
So, it's a ZRAID2 pool with a ufs/gmirror root partition split over 5
disks (gmirror on 500Mb partition on each of five disks, and zraid2 over
the rest of each drive).
What I did was
