Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:02:01 +0200 From: Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> To: Rich Wales <richw@richw.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA-hdd or SATA-controller trouble. Message-ID: <45225139.1010602@fluffles.net> In-Reply-To: <20061003055448.B3E2B3C36B@whodunit.richw.org> References: <20061003055448.B3E2B3C36B@whodunit.richw.org>
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Rich Wales wrote: > Although it's possible that Anton could be having hardware problems due to > overheating or other drive flakiness, there have been lots of reports of > timeout problems with SATA drives on Promise controllers under heavy I/O > load, from many people, for quite some time now, and I would be surprised > if they were all due to overheating. > Then it seems that you don't have a hardware problem but a software problem; i always try to rule out any hardware problems first. That includes a memory test (like memtest86). It's all too frustrating trying to isolate a bug which eventually was hardware-related. But it seems you have a driver problem indeed. All i can say is that i have no problems with my onboard Promise controller; although its not processing terribly much data. A different controller and/or software RAID might be a solution/workaround. - Veronica
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