Promise SATA controller issues...

[Alexander Motin]

George Kontostanos wrote:
> The system was up since April 21 when I upgraded to the latest world &&
> kernel.
> There are 2 pools, a mirror with root on ZFS for the OS and a Raidz1
> just for the data.
> 
> There was nothing out of the ordinary before this except some repeated
> power failures that where handled by the UPS as you can see in the logs:
> 
> Apr 25 13:05:21 hp apcupsd[870]: Power is back. UPS running on mains.
> Apr 25 13:32:48 hp apcupsd[870]: Power failure.
> Apr 25 13:32:50 hp apcupsd[870]: Power is back. UPS running on mains.
> Apr 25 13:35:06 hp apcupsd[870]: Power failure.
> Apr 25 22:08:35 hp kernel: ata4: SIGNATURE: ffffffff
> Apr 25 22:08:35 hp kernel: ata4: timeout waiting to issue command
> Apr 25 22:08:35 hp kernel: ata4: error issuing SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER
> MODE command
> .........

I would enable verbose kernel messages for case it it repeats again. May
be it gives some more understanding. But that's not a fact.

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org
> <mailto:mav at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> 
>     George Kontostanos wrote:
>     > Please let me know what kind of information might be also useful.
> 
>     I don't know. What were the first messages before the problem? Was there
>     any specific activity? It would be most useful if you could reproduce
>     the problem in controllable environment.
> 
>     >     There was no changes specific to the Promise controllers for a
>     long
>     >     time. Mostly because I have no any documentation for them. For
>     the same
>     >     reason I hardly can say what could be wrong there. Some additional
>     >     information is definitely required.

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Alexander Motin