Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

From: Derek Ragona <derek_at_computinginnovations.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:57:45 -0600
I tried the 11/29 snapshot, it is indeed worse.  I got a failure during the 
install's fsck.

The errors I got were:
ad4: Warning - WRITE_DMA recovered from missing interrupt
ad4: Failure - WRITE_DMA status=ff<I couldn't copy the codes here, sorry>

followed by lots of:
ad4: timeout sending command=ca
ad4: error issuing DMA command

All along I have experienced "missing interrupt" errors, along with DMA 
write errors.

         -Derek


At 02:01 PM 11/30/2003, Scott Long wrote:
>Robert Watson wrote:
>>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Guys :)
>>>>
>>>>Sorry if i waste your time. IŽm a freeBSD noob and need some help.
>>>>I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to
>>>>buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the "Silicon
>>>>ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller" onboard (Asus A7N8X Motherboard). I
>>>>didnŽt find a driver in the Hardware Notes of FreeBSD 5.1, and on the
>>>>Producer homepage are only ready Linuxkernels avaible
>>>>(http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/searchDirect/?searchString=Sil+3112A&searchType=allwords&searchby=keywords&r=0.8157617).
>>>>So can anyone tell me if i can get a SATA disk run? I donŽt want to
>>>>boot from it, just read and write. Buying a new disk only for windows
>>>>use is wasted money
>>>
>>>We're having a pretty lengthy discussion about these controllers on this
>>>list right now.  I suggest you read the archives.  Bottom line, the
>>>controller is supported, but it's problematic.  The ATA maintainer has
>>>working controllers, but there are those of us that experience data
>>>corruption, and at least one user that can't use his drive at all when
>>>connected to said controller.
>>
>>I believe a workaround was recently committed to improve behavior on older
>>cards using that chipset.  Specifically the following change to
>>ata-chipset.c:
>>     revision 1.48
>>     date: 2003/11/28 19:01:28;  author: sos;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -2
>>     Workaround for errata on early versions of the sii3112.
>>
>>     Approved by: re_at_
>>Does this make any difference in your configuration?
>>Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
>>robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
>
>This commit only fixes a silent data corruption issue.  I believe that
>the issue at hand involves DMA not working at all.
>
>Scott
>
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