Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

It seems Derek Ragona wrote:
> The SATA seems better, but is still not working.  I tried the Oct 5 
> snapshot, doing a clean install.  I CVSup'd and did
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> reboot to single user
> mount -a
> swapon -a
> mergemaster -p
> make installworld
> 
> System has the same DMA write problems.  In this recent case it was 
> installing termcap.  I tried the Oct 1 snapshot and it was the same, it 
> errored in installworld installing tar.
> 
> The SATA is stabler as I can buildworld, but not stable enough to handle 
> the installworld copies.
> 
> Here is what I copied from the console after it went into the debugger:
> spec_getpages I/O Read failure(error=5)
> vm_fault: pager read error
> panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started

Thanks for the info, and no I havn't found the problem yet, sorry...

-Søren