David Taylor wrote: > Well, its been almost 2 months since this was last mentioned (unless I > missed something), and nothing appears to have moved since, well, the > problem first appeared many months prior to that. > > So as the branch for -7 is (hopefully) approaching, I thought I'd see if > anyone had any news or ideas on this rather irritating problem. Of course > the main reason for my post is entirely selfish -- I'd like to experiment > with ZFS, but system instability caused by even moderate disk usage is > hardly conducive to worthwhile testing... > > I, too, am seeing the now infamous: > > adX: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=... > > messages after simple commands like (cd /usr/ports; make search key=bonnie) > > In my case, ad4 and ad6, connected to a Promise PDC20579 on-board SATA > controller. I'm working on this problem, but on generic ATA controllers, not on Promise in particular. Not sure how different the Promise controllers are and whether what I fix will affect them. I'll let you know when I have something to test, though. > > This system has been essentially entirely stable whilst running 6-STABLE > for the past several years. > > To me, this is a serious problem which will stop me from using FreeBSD-7. > > If there is any way to help diagnose this problem, I'm willing to give > what assistance I can, but I'm not too sure where to begin... > > Alternatively, if anyone can recommend a cheap PCI SATA card which is > known to work well with FreeBSD-7, I might just end up buying that... > 3ware, Areca, Highpoint, Adaptec. All four companies are active in supporting FreeBSD. There are good offerings from LSI as well if you're willing to spend more money. ScottReceived on Tue Oct 09 2007 - 18:27:02 UTC
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