ATA Drive Issues

[fbsd_user]

Hay I am ran ata HD on 5.4 and now on 6.0 with out any problems.

Your problems may be caused by your HD starting to go bad.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Wil
Hatfield
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:46 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: ATA Drive Issues


I was afraid Soren was going to be mentioned. Well shouldn't the
FreeBSD 5.4
release information state that it isn't recommended for machines
with ATA
drives?  I really have no way of downgrading to 5.3 without losing a
couple
hundred customers over it.  But with all these filesystem freezes I
guess I
will eventually lose them anyways.

Without the acknowledgement of the bugs and proper bug tracking I
doubt that
these issues are going to get fixed in 5.5 or 6.1 either. It seems
the ATA
issues are being ignored. How can a release make it this far down
the branch
without fixing the good old ATA drive issues first?

Cheers,

--
Wil Hatfield


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anish
Mistry
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:29 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Cc: Wil Hatfield - HyperConX
Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues


On Friday 31 March 2006 17:08, Wil Hatfield - HyperConX wrote:
> What is the problem with 5.4 and ATA drives? I am running the
> latest release of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p11.  I have two basic ATA
> drives, no raids and no scsi anything. Every now and then under a
> bit of load the harddrive freezes with either a kernel panic or a
> Write_DMA error. I have to reboot the machine and run fsck -y to
> recover. Sometimes I have to run it twice.
>From my understanding ATA in 5.4 is slightly broken since Soren
hasn't
actually touched that code.  The last time he touched the 5.x branch
was for 5.3.  I had a weird issue with a 5.3->5.4 upgrade a while
back.  My tape drive disappeared :(.  I didn't have time to
investigate, so I just backed down to 5.3, which works fine while I
work up a schedule to migrate to 6.X.

--
Anish Mistry


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