Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

[Justin Piszcz]

Kernel 2.6.12.5:
1- 400GB Seagate 8MB cache, 7200RPM, ATA/100 drive.
2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller)

1) Attached 400GB to Seagate 400GB drive.
2) (Not mounted yet)
3) See below

hde: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63, 
UDMA(100)

4) Partition with fdisk (hde1).
5) mkfs.xfs /dev/hde1

*** KERNEL FREEZE *** (ENTIRE MACHINE LOCKS UP)

Do the SAME EXACT THING on the motherboard (INTEL) controller or an 
ATA/100 Promise Controller, there are NO problems.

Either people with this problem are *not* reporting it or do not know 
where to report the problem to.

This is the second machine I have seen this problem with.

Has anyone looked into this?

Justin.

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

[Patrick McFarland]

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On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller)

Make sure its actually the kernel and not that controller. Go find another 
identical one and test with it.

-- 
Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd 
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

[Justin Piszcz]

I have three different Maxtor (promise) ATA/133 controllers, it happens 
with all three.


On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote:

> On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller)
>
> Make sure its actually the kernel and not that controller. Go find another
> identical one and test with it.
>
> -- 
> Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
> "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
> all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
> repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
>

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

[Philip Lawatsch]

Justin Piszcz wrote:

 > I have three different Maxtor (promise) ATA/133 controllers, it
 > happens with all three.


Ever since going to 2.6.12 I also have random hangs with my fileserver.

I've got a
   Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
     Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 
(rev 2).
       IRQ 17.
       Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18.
       I/O at 0xec00 [0xec07].
       I/O at 0xe800 [0xe803].
       I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407].
       I/O at 0xe000 [0xe003].
       I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc0f].
       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdfffc000 [0xdfffffff].


in the box.

Since I do not have a serial cable attached I dont have the panic 
output. But iirc it crashes somewhere in an interrupt handler 
complaining about damaged pagetables (thats why I thought it was bad 
memory). But it takes about 3 days for the machine to hang (and I'm 
happily using all the memory and have high disk i/o in the meantime).

I'll go and replace the memory but perhaps there really is a bug in the 
driver.

kind regards Philip

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

[Justin Piszcz]

Yes, I have two separate machines with the same controller and HDD.
As soon as I found out it fixed the bug on one of them, I changed it on 
the other, neither machine has crashed since.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote:

> On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller)
>
> Make sure its actually the kernel and not that controller. Go find another
> identical one and test with it.
>
> -- 
> Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
> "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
> all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
> repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
>