New Intel boards (was: Re: ATA problems again ... general
problem of ICH7 or ATA?)
Pyun YongHyeon
pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 07:22:55 UTC 2006
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:10:53AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Konstantin Saurbier wrote:
>
> > This errors are not driver or OS dependent such as they appear on
> > FreeBSD as well on different Linux distros.
> > Since not all controllers suffering of these errors it is maybe
> > depending on the firmware or board/chip revisions.
>
> We have two brand new TYAN B5161G20SH4 systems that feature
> ICH7 controllers and SATA-hotplug-bays. One system is equipped
> with two Seagate ST3160811AS drives, the other one with
> WD1600YS-01SHB0 drives.
> Both are configured with gmirror for slice 1.
>
> No problems at all after several days of "make -j4 buildworld".
>
> OTOH I can confirm that I got random "watchdog timeouts"
> with the em driver. debug.mpsafenet=0 fixed the problem
> for now.
>
Several users reported em(4) watchdog errors but I couldn't reproduce
it on my system. A blind patch posted to net ML and I'd like to hear
success/failure report.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-August/011352.html
Make sure to enable "debug.mpsafenet=1" during testing.
--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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