Re: Problems with SATA drives on PDC20771 and SiI3512 controllers

    Known problem with the 2300.

    I've tried every combinaison possible of firmware and drive without 
avail.

    Even geom with raid confirguration would replicate the problem.

    I suggest that you go with a 3ware device which works perfectly in 
my cases
    (Production servers).

    Or a PDC20378 which also work perfectly with 5.4 here.
    (dont know about 6+ and kinda scare to try it.)

    Good luck.

KOT MATPOCKuH wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I got problems with my SATA II drives.
>
>1. If drive attached to Promise FastTrak TX2300 (PDC20771 chipset), all
>"small" operations like fsck, newfs with this drive works propertly.
>But on hard load (like "dump 0f - / | restore rf -" or something like this)
>on  this drive, I have a WRITE_DMA (or WRITE_DMA48) errors, disk detach, and
>as result  - system panic.
>After reboot and fsck, I does not see anything on filesystem.
>
>boot -hsv log is attached, and named boot.promise.log.
>Panic log is panic.promise.log.
>
>2. If drive attached to SiI 3512 SATA150 (second SATA controller on my
>motherboard), I have same problems, but system crashes after 1-2 minutes of
>hard load, and after fsck I see a lot of directories on filesystem.
>
>boot -hsv - boot.sii.log.
>Panic log is panic.sii.log.
>
>I'm tried to check this problem with another SATA drive, and I got problems
>with Promise and SiI controllers, but If THIS drive is connected to nForce3
>Pro SATA150 (chipset's SATA controller) - all is fine, "dump | restore"
>successfully completed.
>
>What is wrong?
>
>--
>MATPOCKuH
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