More Intel ICH5 SATA150 hangs

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 10/29/04 08:48 PM, Mike Tancsa sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:34:12 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
> you wrote:
> >
> >The system is a fairly new (3 months old) Dell 8300; 3Ghz Pentium with
> >HT enabled.  The disk controller is an Intel ICH5 SATA controller, as
> >mentioned above.  The disk is a WDC WD1600JD-75HBB0 (Western Digital).
> >
> >Last time I asked about this, it was suggested that the drive might be
> >bad.  The bios had a test that passed the drive.  It was then
> >suggested that I use the WD test utility.  I wasn't able to do this at
> >the time because I don't have a floppy on this system, and creating a
> >bootable CD from the image didn't work (I think it had a: hardcoded
> >in).  Well, I finally broke down and hijacked the floppy from another
> >machine and ran the WD diags.  Passed with flying colors, both the
> >quick test and the extended test.  The drive is fine.
> >
> 
> A useful program on RELENG_5 is 
> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
> 
> have a quick look to see if there are any bad sectors on the drive.
> Run the daemon, and do a snapshot (smartctl -a ad0) before and after
> the crash and see if there is anything new recorded on the drive.

Will do, but I'm pretty sure at least one of the three utilities I've
already run would have found a bad sector . . .

> >So today I was building OpenOffice and everything came to a screeching
> >halt again.  See the log entries above.
> >Same result the other poor schmuck got when he tried it.  There was
> >also a suggestion that HT be turned off.  Kinda defeats the whole
> 
> HT works against you unless the scheduler is specifically aware of it,
> and right now the ULE scheduler is broken. For sure turn HT off in
> your BIOS and make sure you use SCHED_4BSD and NOT ULE

I am using SCHED_4BSD, not ULE.

> >Anyone have any other suggestions, info, whatever?  I'll try turning
> 
> What does  your kernel config look like ?  

Attached below . . .

Thanks for your response.

Lou




#
# KEYSLAPPER custom kernel config - Adapted from FreeBSD 5.2.1 GENERIC

machine		i386
cpu		I686_CPU
ident		GENERIC

options 	SCHED_4BSD		#4BSD scheduler
options 	INET			#InterNETworking
options 	INET6			#IPv6 communications protocols
options 	FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options 	SOFTUPDATES		#Enable FFS soft updates support
options 	UFS_ACL			#Support for access control lists
options 	UFS_DIRHASH		#Improve performance on big directories
options 	MD_ROOT			#MD is a potential root device
options 	NFSCLIENT		#Network Filesystem Client
options 	NFSSERVER		#Network Filesystem Server
options 	NFS_ROOT		#NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT
options 	MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem
options 	CD9660			#ISO 9660 Filesystem
options 	PROCFS			#Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options 	PSEUDOFS		#Pseudo-filesystem framework
options 	COMPAT_43		#Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD4		#Compatible with FreeBSD4
options 	SCSI_DELAY=15000	#Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options 	KTRACE			#ktrace(1) support
options 	SYSVSHM			#SYSV-style shared memory
options 	SYSVMSG			#SYSV-style message queues
options 	SYSVSEM			#SYSV-style semaphores
options 	_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options 	KBD_INSTALL_CDEV	# install a CDEV entry in /dev
options 	AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT	# Print register bitfields in debug
					# output.  Adds ~128k to driver.
options 	AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT	# Print register bitfields in debug
					# output.  Adds ~215k to driver.
options		IPFIREWALL
options		IPDIVERT
options 	PFIL_HOOKS		# pfil(9) framework
options 	VESA			# VESA support

options 	INVARIANT_SUPPORT	#Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required by INVARIANTS

options 	SMP			# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
device		apic			# I/O APIC

device		isa
device		eisa
device		pci

# Floppy drives - None present
# device		fdc

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device		ata
device		atadisk			# ATA disk drives
device		ataraid			# ATA RAID drives
device		atapicd			# ATAPI CDROM drives
device		atapifd			# ATAPI floppy drives
device		atapist			# ATAPI tape drives
options 	ATA_STATIC_ID		#Static device numbering

# SCSI peripherals
device		scbus		# SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device		ch		# SCSI media changers
device		da		# Direct Access (disks)
device		sa		# Sequential Access (tape etc)
device		cd		# CD
device		pass		# Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
device		ses		# SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device		atkbdc		# AT keyboard controller
device		atkbd		# AT keyboard
device		psm		# PS/2 mouse

device		vga		# VGA video card driver

device		splash		# Splash screen and screen saver support

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device		sc

device		agp		# support several AGP chipsets

# Floating point support - do not disable.
device		npx

# Power management support (see NOTES for more options)
#device		apm
# Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
device		pmtimer

# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
device		cbb			# cardbus (yenta) bridge
device		pccard			# PC Card (16-bit) bus
device		cardbus			# CardBus (32-bit) bus

# Serial (COM) ports
device		sio		# 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports

# Parallel port
device		ppc
device		ppbus		# Parallel port bus (required)
device		lpt		# Printer
device		plip		# TCP/IP over parallel
device		ppi		# Parallel port interface device

# If you've got a "dumb" serial or parallel PCI card that is
# supported by the puc(4) glue driver, uncomment the following
# line to enable it (connects to the sio and/or ppc drivers):
#device         puc

# PCI Ethernet NICs.
# device	de	# DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')
# device	em	# Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card
# device	txp	# 3Com 3cR990 (``Typhoon'')
# device	vx	# 3Com 3c590, 3c595 (``Vortex'')

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device		miibus	# MII bus support
device		fxp	# Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
device		re	# RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
device		rl	# RealTek 8129/8139
device		xl	# 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')

# Wireless NIC cards
device		wlan	# 802.11 support
device		an	# Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs. 
device		awi	# BayStack 660 and others
device		wi	# WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs.

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
device		random		# Entropy device
device		loop		# Network loopback
device		ether		# Ethernet support
device		sl		# Kernel SLIP
device		ppp		# Kernel PPP
device		tun		# Packet tunnel.
device		pty		# Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device		md		# Memory "disks"
device		gif		# IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device		faith		# IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)

# The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
device		bpf		# Berkeley packet filter

# USB support
device		uhci		# UHCI PCI->USB interface
device		ohci		# OHCI PCI->USB interface
device		usb		# USB Bus (required)
device		ugen		# Generic
device		uhid		# "Human Interface Devices"
device		ukbd		# Keyboard
device		ulpt		# Printer
device		umass		# Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device		ums		# Mouse
device		urio		# Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device		uscanner	# Scanners
# USB Ethernet, requires mii
device		aue		# ADMtek USB ethernet
device		axe		# ASIX Electronics USB ethernet
device		cue		# CATC USB ethernet
device		kue		# Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet

device		pcm             # Onboard sound.