On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:
>
> You guys are not overclocking are you ??
>
> > I've recently seen the same problem on 4.2-stable, probably a early version
> > of it, I go to make my kernel and it locks up for a few mins, then I get
> > some ata error and then it says resetting devices and it all runs ok, it
> > resets the ata devices during boot also.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ben Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: HDD Problem
> >
> >
> > > > I've heard tell that there are problems with the VIA chipset and UDMA on
> > > > FreeBSD. Is this true, and if so, what is the problem with?
> > > >
> > > > FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Dec 8 01:52:44 EST 2000
> > > > atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1
> > on
> > > > pci0
> > > > ad0: 19546MB <FUJITSU MPF3204AT> [39714/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
> > >
> > > Sounds similar to the problem I've had with the HPT controller on my
> > > Abit BP6. If you look at the -stable archives from the last few days
> > > you'll see some suggestions. I should really move this drive to one
> > > of the ATA33 controllers since the drive itself only (??) does about
> > > 30M/s sustained anyway.
> > >
> > > atapci1: <HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller> port
> > 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xd400-0xd403,0xd000-0xd007 irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0
> > > ata2: at 0xd000 on atapci1
> > > ad4: 29311MB <Maxtor 53073U6> [59554/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66
> > >
> > > > The drive has enough space and I have 512MB RAM. If I hit the system
> > hard,
> > > > lets say, rm -rf /usr/ports, the system locks up.
> > >
> > > I have to hit mine harder. The more I upgrade FreeBSD, the more times
> > > it successfully resets the devices after a read timeout, but eventually
> > > it hangs while resetting. With 4.2 (or maybe it's softupdates) it
> > > manages to save some of the errors in /var/log/messages.
> > >
> > > No page faults. Haven't had a persistant kernel "page not present"
> > > problem since FreeBSD 1.1.5. Also, my UDMA66 problem is happening
> > > on a machine with ECC mem.
> > >
> > > Another datapoint: my desktop machine (until yesterday running 3.4)
> > > has an IBM disk in it which likes to spin down on its own, causing
> > > timeouts on the first access afterwards. It's irritating (though not
> > > enough that I've investigated jumpering it for always-on) but it has
> > > never hung the system.
> > >
> > > --Ben
> > >
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> -Søren
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