FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

From: Sebastian Holmqvist (sebastian.holmqvist_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/08/04

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    Hi, I'm running a FBSD 5.2.1-p11 server on a 350 PII.
    1 IDE is plugged in on the motherboard. The other two Seagate
    Barracuda 200 GB SATA discs are plugged in on the controllercard.

    I get bad geometry in sysinstall (which is apparently a bug as far as
    I know from searching old mail-lists). Fdisk states that 387621/16/63
    is wrong. Inside is changes to 24321/255/63.
    ST3200822AS is the product name for the hard-drive.
    http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,599,00.html
    is the data***.

    My problem is when I transfer large amounts of data to any of the discs.
    WIthout warning, the whole system absolutely freeze up and I have to
    manually reboot.
    When I then run fsck it reports on several problems, among them a
    SUPERBLK ERROR. I take it that's not good :p
    The disc has to be formatted and we go again.

    The first time it happened, I acquired a fan since they seemed a tad
    hot.. They were pushing 60°C. They are now around 35°C idle. High load
    is probably putting them around 45°C I believe.

    These are the theories I've come up with:
    1) Both my discs are bad (brand new when I bought them)
    2) The setup with the controller card and the motherboard doesn't work
    3) FBSD can't handle the data-transfer very well after a while. Could
    it be that the data goes to the IDE and then to the SATA-discs?

    Thanks in advance, I really don't know how to handle this. Or, well
    I'm gonna try updating to 5.3 in a couple of days, since they have
    better SATA-handling I've been told.

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    Sebastian Holmqvist
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