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:

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> 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.

>

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> Dell 1750 scsi

>

> Our two 1750 scsi boxes works good though. Doesn't seem to crash from dd.

>

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