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

[Sebastian Holmqvist]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:04:47 -0500, Louis LeBlanc
<freebsd at keyslapper.org> wrote:
> 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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I'm happy for you.

Well my patience went out last night. Grabbed a nearby computer and
ripped it apart, moved all the hardware to the server, gonna test it
tomorrow.
Wish me luck!
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Sebastian Holmqvist
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