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SubjectRe: Promise SATA300 TX4: errors, oops in ext3 code
Clemens Koller wrote:
> Alexander Sabourenkov schrieb:
> > Hardware: Athlon64, Asus A8V, Promise SATA300 TX4, 2xSeagate 7200.10
> > 320G, jumper-limited to SATA150.
> > Kernel : 2.6.22.9 amd64
> >
> > Problem:
> > Heavy load causes errors and triggers oops.
>
> Have you checked your memory already (memtest86)?

Last run was about a year ago.

This box gets regularly updated (rebuild of all installed software),
so I'm reasonably certain that memory is ok - gcc being almost as
sensitive as memtest.

Will recheck anyway.

>
> We have several applications with Promise controllers on strange
> hardware and we never had integrity problems with i.e. not so standard
> SATA connections over custom vaccum-tight connectors.

Judging from linux and freebsd mailing lists, the TX4 is now quite
well-known for
intermittent problems, which are hard to reproduce on different hardware.

I have two machines with those controllers, one FreeBSD-6.2 on MSI
K8Neo2 motherboard (ATI chipset),
and this one. FreeBSD box does not exhibit this problem under the
little load it gets, but
6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT branches do have similar symptoms since around 19
April 2007,
with rare occurences (but not unheard of) before.

Thus I am unable to keep machines up to date, and before having to dump
$140 worth of hardware,
I'd like to try to help fix this problem or at least be certain that
those controllers are indeed unusable.


> > Problems were blamed:
> > - SATA300 being too 'hot' (jumpered the drives)
>
> Is this a common known problem with your harddrives or controller?
> (ask google) Otherwise, it sounds like a problem with broken hardware.

This is a common problem with at least VIA onboard controllers and
Seagate disks,
and I think with SATA150 controllers and speed negotiation in general.

This step was suggested in some mailing list as a general precaution, but
actually made no difference to error rate.

I did not unjumper drivers back to SATA300 so that I can easily connect
the drives
to the onboard controller.

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./lxnt


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