Re: Problems with SATA drives on PDC20771 and SiI3512 controllers

From: Alain Hebert <ahebert_at_pubnix.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:24:39 -0400
    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?
>
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>MATPOCKuH
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