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

[Louis LeBlanc]

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
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