ATA Drive Issues

[Anish Mistry]

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.

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Anish Mistry
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