Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:17:43 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout Message-ID: <p06110404bdc32c556bc1@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV178D3E9F90416773C81C19DFC30@phx.gbl> References: <26249.1100342074@critter.freebsd.dk> <4195E5DB.2070302@DeepCore.dk> <BAY2-DAV178D3E9F90416773C81C19DFC30@phx.gbl>
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At 7:33 PM -0800 11/18/04, Zoltan Frombach wrote: >For your information, I applied this patch just now to my kernel. >Sorry about the delay! I will send an update in a few days once I >see if those DMA_WRITE warnings are still happening or not. For those who may have missed my other message, it looks like all of my problems were related to a PCI-based SATA controller which was added by the store that built my machine. This card was added even though I had selected a motherboard with on-board SATA. The problem controller was a: <SiI 3112 SATA150 controller> and it has been causing me enough problems that I couldn't get through a buildworld to even try the suggested patch. I have now switched to the on-board: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> and so far I have not seen any more of these WRITE_DMA messages. None. And I have been pounding the disk pretty hard with a variety of work for a few hours now. So, now there is no point in me adding the patch, because I no longer see the message! It would still be nice if FreeBSD would react better to whatever problems this card causes. I still have this stupid card, and I would be happy to mail it off to anyone who might want to debug the problems with it. And if we *can't* fix it, then maybe we should just remove support for it. I have had to rebuild my freebsd partitions several times now due to these problems, and certainly that wasn't much fun. Although I guess my problems might also be partially due to the Western Digital drive I was using, when it is used in combination with this card. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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