ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

Matt Dawson matt at chronos.org.uk
Sun Aug 20 12:39:17 UTC 2006


On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:00, freebsd-stable-request at freebsd.org wrote:
> Do you mean different type of cables, or just another piece? I can't
> change cables by myself, servers are dedicated from provider, but as I
> can saw, they picked whole new machine from their HW storage and put new
> Samsung disk drives in. So these two last machines are brand new with
> new cables. (Probably with a same type of cables - all machines are ASUS
> RS120)

I can confirm the same behaviour with a ULi M1689/Newcastle Athlon64 based 
system running 6.1-RELEASE-p3 (i386). ad6 just detaches without warning and 
it takes a reboot to bring it back. atacontrol reinit has no effect. Tried 
the following to resolve the problems:

- Changed cables (both ad4 and ad6)
- Changed SATA power to legacy
- Moved the NIC and anything else from the shared PCI INT (thought I'd cracked 
it at this point as it was stable for a month, then it lost ad6 on a nightly 
dump)
- Remade my gmirror array as an ar. Put it straight back to gmirror again when 
I found out what a pain it is to rebuild after ad6 disappears.

Until I read this thread, I was convinced there was something flaky in my 
hardware/BIOS or WD's TLER. Now I'm not so sure.

Hardware:
$ pciconf -lv
agp0 at pci0:0:0:  class=0x060000 card=0x50001458 chip=0x168910b9 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
pcib1 at pci0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x524610b9 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
pcib2 at pci0:2:0: class=0x060401 card=0x00000000 chip=0x524910b9 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'M5249 HyperTransport to PCI Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
isab0 at pci0:3:0: class=0x060100 card=0x50011458 chip=0x156310b9 rev=0x70 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'ALI M1563 South Bridge with Hypertransport Support'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-ISA
none0 at pci0:3:1: class=0x068000 card=0x50031458 chip=0x710110b9 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'ALI M7101 Power Management Controller'
    class    = bridge
atapci0 at pci0:14:0:      class=0x0101fa card=0x50021458 chip=0x522910b9 
rev=0xc7 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'M1543 Southbridge EIDE Controller'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = ATA
atapci1 at pci0:14:1:      class=0x01018f card=0xb0031458 chip=0x528910b9 
rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = ATA
ohci0 at pci0:15:0:        class=0x0c0310 card=0x50041458 chip=0x523710b9 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'M5237 OpenHCI 1.1 USB Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
ohci1 at pci0:15:1:        class=0x0c0310 card=0x50041458 chip=0x523710b9 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'M5237 OpenHCI 1.1 USB Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
ohci2 at pci0:15:2:        class=0x0c0310 card=0x50041458 chip=0x523710b9 
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'M5237 OpenHCI 1.1 USB Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
ehci0 at pci0:15:3:        class=0x0c0320 card=0x50041458 chip=0x523910b9 
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)'
    device   = 'USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
hostb0 at pci0:24:0:       class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11001022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device   = 'Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
hostb1 at pci0:24:1:       class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11011022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device   = 'Athlon 64 / Opteron Address Map'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
hostb2 at pci0:24:2:       class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11021022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device   = 'Athlon 64 / Opteron DRAM Controller'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
hostb3 at pci0:24:3:       class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11031022 
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
    device   = 'Athlon 64 / Opteron Miscellaneous Control'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
none1 at pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x02071787 chip=0x51571002 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'Radeon 7500 Series (RV200)'
    class    = display
    subclass = VGA
ahc0 at pci2:5:0:  class=0x010000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x81789004 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Adaptec Inc'
    device   = 'AHA-2940U/UW/2940D Ultra/Ultra Wide/Dual SCSI Host Adapter'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = SCSI
xl0 at pci2:6:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x905010b7 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = '3COM Corp, Networking Division'
    device   = '3C905-TX Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
fxp0 at pci2:8:0:  class=0x020000 card=0xb01e0e11 chip=0x12298086 rev=0x05 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82550/1/7/8/9 EtherExpress PRO/100(B) Ethernet Adapter'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

$ gmirror list gm0
Geom name: gm0
State: COMPLETE
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
GenID: 0
SyncID: 3
ID: 2674318127
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
   Mediasize: 164696555008 (153G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r8w8e10
Consumers:
1. Name: ad4
   Mediasize: 164696555520 (153G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: DIRTY
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 3
   ID: 4037385812
2. Name: ad6
   Mediasize: 164696555520 (153G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: DIRTY
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 3
   ID: 3245363724

Both drives are WD RE2s with TLER.
-- 
Matt Dawson.

matt at chronos.org.uk
MTD15-RIPE OpenNIC M_D9
MD51-6BONE


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