Custom kernels causing Promise ATA RAID to go down
Michael W. Oliver
freebsd-current at gargantuan.com
Thu Jun 10 10:58:28 GMT 2004
On 2004-06-10T14:28:48+1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote:
> Thought about this. But I don't think it is the case. I've had the 2 HD for
> sometime now, and I they used to 24/7. I have 3 fans running in my tower
> case.
>
> I've just re-built world again recently and I'm still getting problems.
>
> I need to get that other machine going.
I am using an on-board Promise controller, and had similar problems when
first setting up this server.
# pciconf -lv | grep -B1 -A3 Promise
atapci0 at pci2:2:0: class=0x010485 card=0x1275105a chip=0x5275105a rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc'
device = 'PDC20276 Ultra133 TX2/FastTrak TX Lite EIDE Controller'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
What I discovered was that my cables were too long. I had purchased
those round cables in order to reduce air flow restrictions in the case,
but at the time, I could only get 36" cables. After quite a few lost
mirrors, I found out that those cables _should_ be a maximum of 18"
long. I replaced the 36" cables with 18" cables and haven't had a
problem since.
I don't know if this will help you, but it certainly fixed the problems
that I was having.
Good luck.
--
Mike
perl -e 'print unpack("u","88V]N=&%C=\"!I;F9O(&EN(&AE861E<G,*");'
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