Showstopper ATA bug in 6.1-PRE?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:44:05PM +0100, Sren Schmidt wrote..
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:02:08PM +0100, Sren Schmidt wrote..
> >>Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >>>Hi Soren,
> >>>
> >>>I just went to 6.1-PRE on my main machine, coming from 6.0-STABLE
> >>>of roughly end of december.
> >>>
> >>>And I hit some stuff that really worries me:
> >>>
> >>>- the freshly built kernel keels over with (hand transcribed):
> >>>
> >>>ata3: reiniting channel SATA connect ... 
> >>>SATA connected
> >>>sata_connect_devices 0x1 <ATA_MASTER>
> >>>
> >>>ad6: req=0xC35ba0c8 SETFEATURES SETTRANSFERMODE semaphore timeout 
> >>>!! DANGER Will RObinson !!
> >>>
> >>>(... is where I cannot read my own handwriting, it scrolled quite fast on
> >>>the screen..)
> >>>
> >>>Boot device is a SATA RAID1 on a Promise 2300.
> >>Hmm, that should not happen. Could you try to backstep just ATA to 
> >>before the MFC, that is 24/1/06 and let me know if that helps please ?
> >
> >First impression is that the problem is gone.  None of the previously 
> >reported errors are seen.  I am running a level 0 dump from disk to disk
> >to see if the box remains stable.  Given that this is my primary machine
> >I sure hope it will be :-)
> >
> >>>Another snag is that my ad10 disk on 6.0-STABLE suddenly became ad12 on
> >>>6.1-PRE
> >>Hmm that is because there is only 2 ports on your promise which is now 
> >>correctly identified, before it was errounsly found as 3 ports.
> >
> >Ah, OK.  I would suggest a note to the Release Note writers would be a good
> >thing, devices changing location after an upgrade in the -stable branch
> >is unnerving ;-)
> 
> Well, the good thing is that I can reproduce the error here, the bad 
> thing is that it slipped through testing on -current...
> Oh, well, I'll look into it ASAP...

Thank you Soren!

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org