FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

[Louis LeBlanc]

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
> <freebsd at keyslapper.org> 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               FreeBSD at keyslapper.org
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> > 
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> > 
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> 
> 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
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http://www.keyslapper.org                     Ô¿Ô¬

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