Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Hi, for the first time FreeBSD 6.0 recognizes my SATA drives, yippie! > Yesterday's 6.0BETA4 would not initialize ad4 and ad6 would freeze up under > moderate writes so whatever changed between BETA4 and BETA5 has been a real > improvement. There has been no real ATA changes between 4 and 5.. > > Under FreeBSD5.4 both drives always initialize just fine, but even after this > new BETA5 I stille have to boot the machine multiple times before both drives > initialize, usually just one or the other will. Also dmesg is still showing > some sort of error "ata2: FAILURE - oversized DMA transfer attempt 8704 > > 7680". The oversized DMA diag is because ataraid does not limit its write size, and that I'm looking into.. > FreeBSD ringworm.mechee.com 6.0-BETA5 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #2: Sun Sep 18 > 14:40:15 PDT 2005 > root_at_ringworm.mechee.com:/usr6/obj/usr6/src/sys/RINGWORM6 i386 > > Drive ad6 still locks up with moderate writes and freezes the entire system > under BETA5 You should try -current where I have committed substantial updates to the timeout code that might help you when the failure happens. The timeouts and datacorruption on the SiI3112 can only be solved 100% by throwing it out and substituting it with a real SATA controller... -- -SørenReceived on Mon Sep 19 2005 - 05:42:13 UTC
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