Promise SATA300 TX4 card issues

From: Nathan Butcher <n-butcher_at_fusiongol.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:02:45 +0900
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I'm running FreeBSD-7-CURRENT amd64

I've been having problems with my ZFS pool consisting of 4 drives hooked
up to my Prmoise SATA 300TX4 controller. It had been working fine until
to around the 19th of this month, and then I started seeing error
messages whenever I tried to write lots of data to ZFS..... followed by
a nasty lockup with no other debugging information of which to speak of.

The following URL is a post about this exact same problem - except on
FreeBSD amd64 6.1
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware_at_freebsd.org/msg01541.html
I thought FreeBSD had finally left this issue behind in 7.0 ... but I'm
getting the exact same errors..... followed by a complete system lockup.

ad10: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout -
completing request directly
ad10: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout -
completing request directly
ad10: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad10: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing
request directly
ad10: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly
ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=97160544

What I did was to rebuild my userland and kernel from the 200706 amd64
snapshot ISO, and lo and behold - the errors disappear and once again my
zpool is working like a dream.

I assume that *something* was changed in the source tree from between
the 15th-18th of this month which caused my card to go haywire like
this. I changed my system back to the last snapshot sources on the 20th
and haven't updated my system since.

Any ideas what caused this regression?
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