RE: Re[2]: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Jay
Tony, Interesting that you have seen different disks producing different timeout issues (or not) so far on my experiments with 4 different disks 2 SATA 2 IDE (different dises) is that the timeout error has appears on all of them. Regads ALan > -Original Message- > From: Tony Byrne [mailt

RE: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Jay
hanks. > -Original Message- > From: Dominic Marks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:00 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 > > On Friday 01 July 2005 16:34, Alan

SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Jay
Further to this the same ATA Timeout is seen in the latest SNAP binaries (1st July). ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Jay
ehalf Of Matthias > Buelow > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:49 PM > To: Tony Byrne > Cc: Alan Jay; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 > with FreeBSD 5.4 > > Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

RE: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (Adaptec AIC-8110 Compatibility maybe?)

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Jay
Message- > From: Tony Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:29 AM > To: Alan Jay > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 > with FreeBSD 5.4 > > Hello Alan, > > AJ>

SATA Problems - ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-01 Thread Alan Jay
I suppose the question is was there a problem with the Tyan S5350 motherboard and its ATA controller - I know that two identical motherboards with different hard disks exhibit the same problem. And if so why is it that there has been little on these lists about problems with the chipset which i

RE: ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (problems booting - SATA hard disk not recognised) -

2005-06-30 Thread Alan Jay
ns as below. But with the recompiled kernel it is fine. Does anyone have any insigts? Regards Alan > -Original Message- > From: Alan Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:25 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'; 'freebsd-stable@free

ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (problems booting - SATA hard disk not recognised) -

2005-06-14 Thread Alan Jay
organise a replacement. Any other help gratefully received. Alan Jay PS The rest of the machine specs are - twin Xeon processor; 4 Gb RAM; Intel Gigabit Network card in the PCI slot. 250Gb SATA drive. PPS Having looked around the lists there appear to be people who say this is related to the

Problems with Serial ATA - Tyan Tiger i7320 motherboard

2005-06-10 Thread Alan Jay
I just got a machine Tyan Tiger i7320 motherboard with a 250Gb Serial ATA Hitachi drive. When I try to boot FreeBSD 5.4 Release it says: ATA0 ATAPI IDENTITY_TIMEOUT several times And ATA1 IDENTIFY_TIMEOUT Before the install starts - RedHat Liunx correctly sees the drive. :( Does this mean

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-01 Thread Alan Jay
Hi, I have a Tyan based 1U computer with twin Xeon and 6Gb RAM which we recently installed 5.4 Release on. When we recompiled the kernel with the SMP and PAE options it would randomly reboot but so far (touch wood) using it with just 4Gb or RAM and removing the PAE kernel (just leaving the SMP on

problems with setting kern.maxdsiz in /boot/loader.conf

2005-05-06 Thread Alan Jay
I am running 5.4 RC4 and rebooted today after changing one of the boot-time variables (maximum data size) in /boot/loader.conf. I took it from 512MB to 2GB of RAM in order to improve the MySQL performance on the server. However, upon reboot, the following error comes up: Fatal trap 9: general

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-31 Thread Alan Jay
orce busdma to not defer requests when the > bounce page reserve is low, but that looks to be broken and > will result in corrupted commands." [Alan Jay] Since we are talking about FreeBSD on AMD64 on the AMD64 list I have reported issues on that list. I have a TyanThunder K8S pro S288

UPDATE 5.3-STABLE was Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on TyanThunder K8S pro S2882 twin Operteron

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Jay
Hi, Well after upgrading to the latest -STABLE via cvsup and makeworld makekernel etc we have been doing some more tests over the weekend. One of our databases ran fine all weekend so we took the plunge on Sunday to try our big heavily accessed database. It ran fine until 7.45 Monday morning - w

Re: Can FreeBSD 5.3R support the RAID card MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E

2005-03-05 Thread Alan Jay
> Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD 5.3R support the RAID card MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E card? > > I have search amr on > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=amr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3- > RELEASE > > > > It said support the following: > > 7 AMI MegaRAID 320-1 > > 7 AMI MegaR

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on TyanThunder K8S pro S2882 twin Operteron

2005-03-04 Thread Alan Jay
of > data as the other mySQL database runs fine but switching to the more load > intensive one causes issues. > > > Thanks in advance for your advice. > Alan Jay ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard (2)

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Jay
> -Original Message- > From: David O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to > stable > > we seemed to have a stable platform

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
> -Original Message- > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:53:24PM -, Alan Jay wrote: > > I had major problems installing with more than 4Gb but once I moved to > stable > > we seemed to have a stable platform when doing basic stuff - we have two > > databases (mySQL

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
> > The >4GB problems with 5.3-RELEASE are a well known problem and affect > for i386 and amd64. It's pretty much fixed in the 5.3-STABLE stream, > but there are a few edge cases that I still need to fix which prevent me > from feeling good about turning it into a 5.3-R errata fix. It'll > defin

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
AMD release is not as super as the other versions we have used extensively. Thanks for your support. Regards ALan > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan A. Dama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:47 AM > To: Doug White > Cc: Alan Jay; freebsd-sta

RE: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-15 Thread Alan Jay
nday, February 14, 2005 6:16 PM > To: Alan Jay > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan > Motherboard > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Alan Jay wrote: > > > I have FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE onto our new twin operteron T

Possible problems with Broadcom BCM5704C 10/100/1000 on Tyan Motherboard

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Jay
Hi, I have FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE onto our new twin operteron Tyan Thunder K8S Pro S2882 with 8Gb of RAM and had a reasonably stable operation for a few days we installed a couple of databases one worked fine but the other kept on causing the server to crash. I have searched the archive and there