Hi,
I just installed FreeBSD 6.2-release on my net4801
on a 100 GB Seagate Momentus 7200.1 hard drive.
Before installation I flashed the BIOS on the Soekris
to 1.30, since the disksize reported by the BIOS was incorrect.
The installation went smooth, however I'm a bit worried
about the hard drive, since the LED is almost always on
for no apparent reason. When I say went smooth,
Everything went as it should, the only thing that was
Complaining was the fdisk utility, saying that the reported
structure was incorrect. I'm guessing the LBA algorithm in
The Soekris BIOS wasen't able to figure it out.
When FreeBSD is loaded, the hdd led switches on permanent more
or less, and I can't figure out why.
When the Soekris awaits in the BIOS, the hdd isn't doing anything.
I'm still using the generic kernel.
Compiled a new one on another install, but it didn't make any
difference.
I read a thread posted back in 2005, where a guy had a problem
with OpenBSD 3.7 which seems to fit my problem aswell.
Even if I (nicely ;) kill everything besides login, getty and devd
the problem persists.
I was lucky enough to borrow another Net4801, used the same hdd,
installed from stratch, and the problem is found on that box aswell.
Syslog does not really report anything at all.
I tried disabling DMA in loader.conf, and tried the various PIO
modes, but it didn't make a difference regarding the hdd led.
The problem also shows when booting in single-user mode.
"top" output:
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last pid: 1129; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+01:41:28
23:23:04
4 processes: 1 running, 3 sleeping
CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.8% interrupt, 98.8%
idle
Mem: 3256K Active, 5092K Inact, 11M Wired, 10M Buf, 98M Free
Swap: 239M Total, 239M Free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
1097 root 1 20 0 4020K 2856K pause 0:01 0.00% csh
706 root 1 8 0 1736K 1456K wait 0:00 0.00% login
1129 root 1 96 0 2256K 1500K RUN 0:00 0.00% top
494 root 1 99 0 528K 388K select 0:00 0.00% devd
"fstat" output:
---------------
deoxys# fstat
USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W
root fstat 1164 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root fstat 1164 wd / 16453 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root fstat 1164 text /usr 11352228 -r-xr-sr-x 14340 r
root fstat 1164 0 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root fstat 1164 1 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root fstat 1164 2 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root fstat 1164 3 /dev 6 crw-r----- mem r
root fstat 1164 4 /dev 7 crw-r----- kmem r
root fstat 1164 5 / 49853 -rw------- 40960 r
root csh 1097 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root csh 1097 wd / 16453 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root csh 1097 text / 17 -r-xr-xr-x 293060 r
root csh 1097 15 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root csh 1097 16 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root csh 1097 17 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root csh 1097 18 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root csh 1097 19 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root login 706 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root login 706 wd / 16453 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root login 706 text /usr 11352270 -r-sr-xr-x 19984 r
root login 706 0 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root login 706 1 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root login 706 2 /dev 39 crw------- ttyd0 rw
root devd 494 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root devd 494 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root devd 494 text / 49371 -r-xr-xr-x 282556 r
root devd 494 0 /dev 8 crw-rw-rw- null rw
root devd 494 1 /dev 8 crw-rw-rw- null rw
root devd 494 2 /dev 8 crw-rw-rw- null rw
root devd 494 3 /dev 5 crw------- devctl r
root devd 494 4* local stream c16f3000
root init 1 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root init 1 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
root init 1 text / 49395 -r-x------ 514792 r
deoxys#
"iostat" output:
----------------
deoxys# iostat -w 1 ad0
tty ad0 cpu
tin tout KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id
1 38 5.66 4 0.02 1 0 1 1 98
0 129 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 16.00 4 0.06 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 1 98
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 2 97
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100
0 44 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100
0 44 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100
0 44 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 100
0 44 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 1 0 99
0 43 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 1 99
^C
Is there anyone who has an idea on what to do next ?
I'm not sure if its a hdd,soekris,bios or freebsd
issue i'm facing.
Thanks :)
Cheers,
Søren Elleby Sørensen
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