Which Sata-controller card?
Had some bad experience with my previous one: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus, so I would like some tips. Two harddrives will be attached for now, maybe more later. Alot of data transfer. I have an 5.3-can running. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:52:49 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:04:47 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Sebastian, it looks like 5.3 has solved all my problems. I put my drive under extreme duress last night with a sustained load of about 22M/s with spikes up to 24 (according to the gkrellm monitor). This went on for about 20 minutes. Not even a flinch. I'm pretty well convinced that whatever problem I was having in 5.2.1 is gone. Excellent job by the FreeBSD dev group! (ROUSING APPLAUSE). I hope you are able to solve your Promise SATA issues soon. Sorry I can't help with specifics, but here's what I have: Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller Western Digital WD1600JD-75HBB0/08.02D08 drive (160G) The motherboard is the Dell Dimension 8300. The kernel is smp with much of the cruft ripped out (watch that when you recycle a 5.2.1 kernel config - there are some new devices that are needed in 5.3 :) I updated to RELENG_5_3 (5.3 with security updates) and rebuilt and installed world and kernel (with smp). After this, there were only the usual configuration tweaks to work out. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Nothing is faster than the speed of light ... To prove this to yourself, try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm happy for you. Well my patience went out last night. Grabbed a nearby computer and ripped it apart, moved all the hardware to the server, gonna test it tomorrow. Wish me luck! -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com Gah! Same error, though it lasts a few more hours. I've talked with both Seagate support and Promise. Most likely to be the controller card. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CANNOT SSH to my computer
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:26:05 +, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:49:03AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev wrote: I changed PasswordAuthentication to 'yes' and this time it asks me 6 times for my password (3 times beginning with Password: You can disable these first three by changing ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no. and another 3 times with Password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and rejects me again with the same message from sshd. Sounds like a silly question, I know, but are you typing your password correctly? For example, is your local keymap sending the right characters to the server? Adding more verbosity didn't help me to understand the problem. I also noticed that my ida_dsa.pub key ends with ivan@ . Usualy I have seen it ending with [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is this a problem? No, I don't think so. It is just a convenient identifier for human consumption - it's somewhat easier to use the last little bit of the key than to try and remember the whole keyblock! Have you copied ida_dsa.pub from the client machine to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the server? Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ Sure you have changed your keymap? And sorry if I misunderstood, are you trying to ssh to the computer you're sitting on? -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vr0: rx packet lost
I get vr0: rx packet lost when I transfer files. I did not get these signals when I ran other networks-cards using ed and rl. I've tested the sdram with memtest86+. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Port psybnc stops in error code [FreeBSD 5.3 with cvsuped ports]
# cd /usr/ports/irc/psybnc/; make install clean === Configuring for psybnc-2.3.1_1 cd /usr/ports/irc/psybnc/work/psybnc make menuconfig Initializing Menu-Configuration [*] Running Conversion Tool for older psyBNC Data. tools/convconf.c: In function `cofile': tools/convconf.c:81: error: label at end of compound statement *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/psybnc/work/psybnc. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/irc/psybnc. I run 5.3 ISO-image and a cvsupped ports-tree. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Proftpd: Whole server gets ceiled off the network after a while of transfer
Every time I transfer something over proftpd, the server looses contact with the network. I can't ping it, it can't ping back. Only resolution is to restart.. Why? -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:04:47 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Sebastian, it looks like 5.3 has solved all my problems. I put my drive under extreme duress last night with a sustained load of about 22M/s with spikes up to 24 (according to the gkrellm monitor). This went on for about 20 minutes. Not even a flinch. I'm pretty well convinced that whatever problem I was having in 5.2.1 is gone. Excellent job by the FreeBSD dev group! (ROUSING APPLAUSE). I hope you are able to solve your Promise SATA issues soon. Sorry I can't help with specifics, but here's what I have: Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller Western Digital WD1600JD-75HBB0/08.02D08 drive (160G) The motherboard is the Dell Dimension 8300. The kernel is smp with much of the cruft ripped out (watch that when you recycle a 5.2.1 kernel config - there are some new devices that are needed in 5.3 :) I updated to RELENG_5_3 (5.3 with security updates) and rebuilt and installed world and kernel (with smp). After this, there were only the usual configuration tweaks to work out. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Nothing is faster than the speed of light ... To prove this to yourself, try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm happy for you. Well my patience went out last night. Grabbed a nearby computer and ripped it apart, moved all the hardware to the server, gonna test it tomorrow. Wish me luck! -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:04:31 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/08/04 08:04 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: I've been getting WRITE_DMA timeouts in /var/log/messages though, typically 1 to 3 of them before the lockup. Have you noticed any of these? Nope, nothing of that kind. Can't check for earlier times since I've reinstalled since then. But the error tonight didn't report anything. Please get back to me if you manage to survive any large data-transfers :) In that case; 5.3 HERE I COME :p Will do. I've been eagerly awaiting 5.3 to deal with this exact problem. Typically, building OpenOffice.org will tell one way or another, and it should be going on now - unless it's already locked up. I'll find out when I get home this evening and let you know. If it doesn't lock up, I'll try building a couple large packages simultaneously (like Mozilla and jdk1.4). That will be the absolute indicator. If it does lock up, I'll be reinstalling some time this week with the fdisk geometry forced to that recommended by WD, and running back through the disk loads described above. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's constant. And then the aside: For those of you who don't know, that's been called by others the fiddle factor... -- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will do. I've been eagerly awaiting 5.3 to deal with this exact problem. You too? :) That's why I haven't touched FreeBSD for so long, I had this fix idea it was 5.2.1 that screwed me over. Don't have my discs as system, so building and that kind of stuff isn't touched, luckily. Since you don't have it when you're transferring files, it probably has to do with FBSD's compability with SATA controller cards. I'm doing 'make buildworld' now so that I can easily switch over to 5.3 later on. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Gah!! This drives me mad! My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up. I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical geometry printed at seagates site. Started a transfer, it lasted 2 hours, then :/ Now my whole can is frozen and I can't do anything but restart. Somebody, please help! -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: SNIP Gah!! This drives me mad! My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up. I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical geometry printed at seagates site. Started a transfer, it lasted 2 hours, then :/ Now my whole can is frozen and I can't do anything but restart. Somebody, please help! I feel your pain buddy. I haven't had any trouble yet with my new 5.3 install. I haven't booted up an SMP kernel yet either. Who knows if that will do the trick. This is the initial install with the fdisk detected geometry, not the WD settings. I have put the system under some load, but without the SMP kernel I wasn't able to get the disk humming too much. I even built mozilla in one shell while rebuilding firefox in another. Building OpenOffice.org didn't encounter any problems either. If all goes well, while I'm at work today, the first stage of buildworld and buildkernel should be happening. When I get home, I'll finish the install and see if rebuilding OpenOffice.org works without incident. Other than that, everything but the BSD version (and my fancy new dual head setup - happydance!) is the same as my previous 5.2.1 setup that had me pulling my hair out with disk write based crashes. I'll fill you in when I know what happens. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do! Well, this really sucks... If it's not fixed soon I'll do something drastic, either I pull my thumb out of my ass and switch the hardware from another computer, or I'll. go over to win98 :/ -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:18:39 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 07:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: SNIP Gah!! This drives me mad! My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up. I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical geometry printed at seagates site. Started a transfer, it lasted 2 hours, then :/ Now my whole can is frozen and I can't do anything but restart. Somebody, please help! I feel your pain buddy. I haven't had any trouble yet with my new 5.3 install. I haven't booted up an SMP kernel yet either. Who knows if that will do the trick. This is the initial install with the fdisk detected geometry, not the WD settings. I have put the system under some load, but without the SMP kernel I wasn't able to get the disk humming too much. I even built mozilla in one shell while rebuilding firefox in another. Building OpenOffice.org didn't encounter any problems either. If all goes well, while I'm at work today, the first stage of buildworld and buildkernel should be happening. When I get home, I'll finish the install and see if rebuilding OpenOffice.org works without incident. Other than that, everything but the BSD version (and my fancy new dual head setup - happydance!) is the same as my previous 5.2.1 setup that had me pulling my hair out with disk write based crashes. I'll fill you in when I know what happens. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do! Well, this really sucks... If it's not fixed soon I'll do something drastic, either I pull my thumb out of my ass and switch the hardware from another computer, or I'll. go over to win98 :/ Blasphemer!! :) IIRC you're having this problem under 5.2.1, right? It might be worth the time to just jump to 5.3. Another idea, if your CPU is an HT processor, and your kernel is built with SMP, try booting to the GENERIC kernel without SMP. I know the GENERIC kernel has SMP in the config, but there's another option escaping me right now that overrides it. If the problem goes away, it could be the SMP kernel (in 5.2.1 at least). Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Reliable source, n.: The guy you just met. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said in the previous mail, I switched to 5.3 last night. And I'm running the GENERIC. Restarted my server now, and I go these failues from the two sata-discs, dunno if it's fsck that's kicking in :/ ata3-master: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out etc etc Now it's locked up again :( Thinking of switching hardware with my old lover, the Thunderbird 800. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Promise SATA150 controller supported?
How come I saw that 5.x had support several months ago, and when I look today, it's gone? -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:42:43 +0100, Sebastian Holmqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:18:39 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 07:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: SNIP Gah!! This drives me mad! My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up. I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical geometry printed at seagates site. Started a transfer, it lasted 2 hours, then :/ Now my whole can is frozen and I can't do anything but restart. Somebody, please help! I feel your pain buddy. I haven't had any trouble yet with my new 5.3 install. I haven't booted up an SMP kernel yet either. Who knows if that will do the trick. This is the initial install with the fdisk detected geometry, not the WD settings. I have put the system under some load, but without the SMP kernel I wasn't able to get the disk humming too much. I even built mozilla in one shell while rebuilding firefox in another. Building OpenOffice.org didn't encounter any problems either. If all goes well, while I'm at work today, the first stage of buildworld and buildkernel should be happening. When I get home, I'll finish the install and see if rebuilding OpenOffice.org works without incident. Other than that, everything but the BSD version (and my fancy new dual head setup - happydance!) is the same as my previous 5.2.1 setup that had me pulling my hair out with disk write based crashes. I'll fill you in when I know what happens. Good luck. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do! Well, this really sucks... If it's not fixed soon I'll do something drastic, either I pull my thumb out of my ass and switch the hardware from another computer, or I'll. go over to win98 :/ Blasphemer!! :) IIRC you're having this problem under 5.2.1, right? It might be worth the time to just jump to 5.3. Another idea, if your CPU is an HT processor, and your kernel is built with SMP, try booting to the GENERIC kernel without SMP. I know the GENERIC kernel has SMP in the config, but there's another option escaping me right now that overrides it. If the problem goes away, it could be the SMP kernel (in 5.2.1 at least). Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Reliable source, n.: The guy you just met. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said in the previous mail, I switched to 5.3 last night. And I'm running the GENERIC. Restarted my server now, and I go these failues from the two sata-discs, dunno if it's fsck that's kicking in :/ ata3-master: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out etc etc Now it's locked up again :( Thinking of switching hardware with my old lover, the Thunderbird 800. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com Hey, I found this just now, might be something? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-August/002921.html -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:40:13 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 10:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: SNIP Hey, I found this just now, might be something? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-August/002921.html Not sure if this has been addressed yet. Looks like it was encountered in August, so I'd think so by now. Anyone else? Are you sure this is the one you're seeing? It's not the same thing I was getting. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't get anything but a freeze. But I'm looking up atacontrol(8) right now, maybe look into which mode I'm running. And ata(4) states as follows: ATAPI devices are set to PIO mode by default because severe DMA problems are common even if the device capabilities indicate support. You can always try to set DMA mode on an ATAPI device using atacontrol(8), but be aware that your hardware might not support it and can potentially hang the entire system causing data loss. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBSD 5.3 | Wrong DMA mode freezes the system?
I have 2 discs on my Sata-controller card. It's fully supported by FBSD but when it's handling alot of data, the whole machine hangs. I checked with atacontrol and my discs were SATA150, but the documentation says: Currently supported modes are: BIOSDMA, PIO0 (alias BIOSPIO), PIO1, PIO2, PIO3, PIO4, WDMA2, UDMA2 (alias UDMA33), UDMA4 (alias UDMA66), UDMA5 (alias UDMA100) and UDMA6 (alias UDMA133). Could this have something to do with it? I found this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-August/002921.html Looks pretty much like my problem, only that I use the SATA-ports instead of the PATA on the card. -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:54:21 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 10:54 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:40:13 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/04 10:29 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: SNIP Hey, I found this just now, might be something? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-August/002921.html Not sure if this has been addressed yet. Looks like it was encountered in August, so I'd think so by now. Anyone else? Are you sure this is the one you're seeing? It's not the same thing I was getting. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't get anything but a freeze. But I'm looking up atacontrol(8) right now, maybe look into which mode I'm running. And ata(4) states as follows: ATAPI devices are set to PIO mode by default because severe DMA problems are common even if the device capabilities indicate support. You can always try to set DMA mode on an ATAPI device using atacontrol(8), but be aware that your hardware might not support it and can potentially hang the entire system causing data loss. Tried it. Your hardware may differ, but mine didn't support PIO. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. -- Kirk, The return of the Archons, stardate 3157.4 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gah, it's like it wants to tease me :( What can it be? -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
Hi, I'm running a FBSD 5.2.1-p11 server on a 350 PII. 1 IDE is plugged in on the motherboard. The other two Seagate Barracuda 200 GB SATA discs are plugged in on the controllercard. I get bad geometry in sysinstall (which is apparently a bug as far as I know from searching old mail-lists). Fdisk states that 387621/16/63 is wrong. Inside is changes to 24321/255/63. ST3200822AS is the product name for the hard-drive. http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,599,00.html is the datasheet. My problem is when I transfer large amounts of data to any of the discs. WIthout warning, the whole system absolutely freeze up and I have to manually reboot. When I then run fsck it reports on several problems, among them a SUPERBLK ERROR. I take it that's not good :p The disc has to be formatted and we go again. The first time it happened, I acquired a fan since they seemed a tad hot.. They were pushing 60°C. They are now around 35°C idle. High load is probably putting them around 45°C I believe. These are the theories I've come up with: 1) Both my discs are bad (brand new when I bought them) 2) The setup with the controller card and the motherboard doesn't work 3) FBSD can't handle the data-transfer very well after a while. Could it be that the data goes to the IDE and then to the SATA-discs? Thanks in advance, I really don't know how to handle this. Or, well I'm gonna try updating to 5.3 in a couple of days, since they have better SATA-handling I've been told. Sebastian Holmqvist ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
I've been getting WRITE_DMA timeouts in /var/log/messages though, typically 1 to 3 of them before the lockup. Have you noticed any of these? Nope, nothing of that kind. Can't check for earlier times since I've reinstalled since then. But the error tonight didn't report anything. Please get back to me if you manage to survive any large data-transfers :) In that case; 5.3 HERE I COME :p Sebastian Holmqvist On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:42:57 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/08/04 06:57 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: Hi, I'm running a FBSD 5.2.1-p11 server on a 350 PII. 1 IDE is plugged in on the motherboard. The other two Seagate Barracuda 200 GB SATA discs are plugged in on the controllercard. I get bad geometry in sysinstall (which is apparently a bug as far as I know from searching old mail-lists). Fdisk states that 387621/16/63 is wrong. Inside is changes to 24321/255/63. ST3200822AS is the product name for the hard-drive. http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,599,00.html is the datasheet. My problem is when I transfer large amounts of data to any of the discs. WIthout warning, the whole system absolutely freeze up and I have to manually reboot. When I then run fsck it reports on several problems, among them a SUPERBLK ERROR. I take it that's not good :p The disc has to be formatted and we go again. The first time it happened, I acquired a fan since they seemed a tad hot.. They were pushing 60°C. They are now around 35°C idle. High load is probably putting them around 45°C I believe. These are the theories I've come up with: 1) Both my discs are bad (brand new when I bought them) 2) The setup with the controller card and the motherboard doesn't work 3) FBSD can't handle the data-transfer very well after a while. Could it be that the data goes to the IDE and then to the SATA-discs? Thanks in advance, I really don't know how to handle this. Or, well I'm gonna try updating to 5.3 in a couple of days, since they have better SATA-handling I've been told. I've had problems with an Intel ICH5 SATA controller, and serious system lockups much like what you're describing. I've run my drive through every utility I could find and I'm convinced there's nothing wrong with it. I've been getting WRITE_DMA timeouts in /var/log/messages though, typically 1 to 3 of them before the lockup. Have you noticed any of these? I hadn't thought about the fdisk issue, but yesterday I did a new 5.3 install and got a similar message to yours. Based on the fdisk message, I'm going to keep an eye out for anything strange. I haven't had this problem in 5.3 yet, but if I do, I'll be sure to look up the drives data sheet (WD 160G) and see how they match. In the past, I've always let fdisk do what it wanted, but maybe I should have forced it to the mfg spec. Perhaps I'll retry the install using that method. If it changes anything, I'll post it here. Not sure this helps, but maybe it'll put a couple pieces of the puzzle together somewhere. Good luck Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org Ô¿Ô¬ The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -- Sagan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/08/04 08:04 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: I've been getting WRITE_DMA timeouts in /var/log/messages though, typically 1 to 3 of them before the lockup. Have you noticed any of these? Nope, nothing of that kind. Can't check for earlier times since I've reinstalled since then. But the error tonight didn't report anything. Please get back to me if you manage to survive any large data-transfers :) In that case; 5.3 HERE I COME :p Will do. I've been eagerly awaiting 5.3 to deal with this exact problem. Typically, building OpenOffice.org will tell one way or another, and it should be going on now - unless it's already locked up. I'll find out when I get home this evening and let you know. If it doesn't lock up, I'll try building a couple large packages simultaneously (like Mozilla and jdk1.4). That will be the absolute indicator. If it does lock up, I'll be reinstalling some time this week with the fdisk geometry forced to that recommended by WD, and running back through the disk loads described above. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's constant. And then the aside: For those of you who don't know, that's been called by others the fiddle factor... -- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will do. I've been eagerly awaiting 5.3 to deal with this exact problem. You too? :) That's why I haven't touched FreeBSD for so long, I had this fix idea it was 5.2.1 that screwed me over. Don't have my discs as system, so building and that kind of stuff isn't touched, luckily. Since you don't have it when you're transferring files, it probably has to do with FBSD's compability with SATA controller cards. I'm doing 'make buildworld' now so that I can easily switch over to 5.3 later on. -- Sebastian Holmqvist ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
