ATA Drive Issues

[Anish Mistry]

On Friday 31 March 2006 17:45, Wil Hatfield wrote:
> I was afraid Soren was going to be mentioned. Well shouldn't the
> FreeBSD 5.4 release information state that it isn't recommended for
> machines with ATA drives?  I really have no way of downgrading to
> 5.3 without losing a couple hundred customers over it.  But with
> all these filesystem freezes I guess I will eventually lose them
> anyways.
>
> Without the acknowledgement of the bugs and proper bug tracking I
> doubt that these issues are going to get fixed in 5.5 or 6.1
> either. It seems the ATA issues are being ignored. How can a
> release make it this far down the branch without fixing the good
> old ATA drive issues first?
ATA on 6.x and CURRENT are being maintained by Soren, just not 5.x.  
Moving to 6.x should fix the problem.  Checking gnats only shows 
outstanding WRITE_DMA issues for 5.x.

>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Wil Hatfield
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anish
> Mistry Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:29 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Wil Hatfield - HyperConX
> Subject: Re: ATA Drive Issues
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Anish Mistry
>
>
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Anish Mistry
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