That is fixed in 4.3 or in -current not sure if it made the previous release.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:17:02AM +0200, Torsten Frost wrote: > I have a few machines with the same behavior. The boxes run fine > unless you tax them with > things like unpacking ports, du on a large tree or dd'ng some > /dev/zero to disk. The 1950 can route 400mbit > ethernet with no problems for weeks if you don't mess with the disks, > so i guess the hardware is > reasonably unbroken. > > > Broken hardware or some driver/chipset issue? > > > Dell 1950 with a PERC5 raid1 SATA 160gb mirror. 4.2-RELEASE > > A 300mb dd write makes an unkillable process. Outputs a few "sd0: not > queued, error 5" lines. > > > Recently flashed the card to the latest firmware. Behaves somewhat better. > > Happens with a single drive too. > > Needs rebooting to be able to write to the > drive after it has started to behave. > Takes forever to unpack ports.tar.gz, i aborted the unpacking after 20 > minutes and about 100mb unpacked. > Is at least stable, doesn't die, just writes to the disk really slow. > Like previous poster, unkillable processes and weird behaviour. Needs > rebooting to be able to write to the > drive after it has started to behave. > > ----- > > Dell 1750 scsi > > Our two 1750 scsi boxes works good though. Doesn't seem to crash from dd. > > -----
