Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:26:28 +0400 | From | Alexander Sabourenkov <> | Subject | Re: Promise SATA300 TX4: errors, oops in ext3 code |
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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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