From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 04:38:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75ECE16A420 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:38:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094C813C480 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so110005nfb for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:38:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=GEaoOEMdfVhDZITs6xg+bPvxuXEevx2N0l0MBOptf0RqqrNkrkRPDD8y7yyuubSujI1VBKmqDPKSu4gpRNtbkg77rypNCT3CwUjvYBATZL4RnSLUqBbzlPGCozj2/Oq91ZSkj1Ti74HOtOYsFCyZmu3HiBK7DB4p6q/gl8/r6jY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=M8y3HaZq7pOvdZMqeEoL8sCguzlhCT7y5v95JvKdgNGAv3aKjI/p3BJK5Ec1tv6F1l63CFtfWysr87/m3Kfg4FmN7ANX+q77w0jzYD7Vqwr0zG3ijjKB/sgSnq+Xpusm/a/nrDBF7Bpn5o2R0Mpld85jrVZNDm3lwGbYQiWTjkM= Received: by 10.78.145.5 with SMTP id s5mr419233hud.1186029537474; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.25.12 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90708012138y70da9609rafbf3ac86068826b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:38:57 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: bb52786f3cfa78ba Subject: 6.2 not compatible with new sata drives ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:38:59 -0000 I know it strains credibility, but I can't see what else the problem could be. I got 2 new 160GB drives last month, and my system has been unstable ever since. I have swapped cables, purchased a brand-new sata150 controller (as opposed to the year old sataII), and the results are always the same. I thought the drives might be DOA so I RMA'd one of the 160's, and got a new 400GB yesterday, and it's differenent, but similar. Get lots of "setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout" errors in dmesg, can't read sectors, sometimes the system reboots, etc. The only fix is to remove the new drives. Anyone else had this issue? My 2 old sata 160GB drives from last year are rock solid, but they get "disconnected" if you touch one of the new drives. Unplug the new drives, and no problems whatsoever with the old ones. I put both the sata150 and the sataII card in my system, and put the old 160's on one, and the new 160's on the other, and the old ones work fine, but the new ones still die (they just don't take the old ones with them when they are on their own card). So I'm pretty convinced it's the drives, but why? This is like the old Win95 days. I haven't had a legitimate hardware issue since I don't know when.... Steve