Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:53:28 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> Cc: legioner.r@gmail.com, morten@lightworkings.dk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MCP55 SATA data corruption in FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <20080701125328.GA69964@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A1968@royal64.emp.zapto.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A1968@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:01:17AM +0200, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > The server with 570 Ultra chipset has a bunch of older 250GB SATA-150 > drives hooked up to the MCP55 controller and it is working just fine. > The server with 570 SLI chipset has a bunch of new SATA-300 drives > hooked up to the MCP55 controller and it is giving me silent data > corruption (easily detectable by running ZFS scrub, every time I run it > new checksum errors show up). I know the drives are good because when > they are hooked up to another controller they work just fine. With the same cables? Not that I want to use cables as a scapegoat, but in this case it seems applicable. > Unfortunately the drives does not have a jumper for setting SATA-150 > speed (they are Samsung 1 TB drives), and trying to force the drives to > SATA-150 speed with the "patch" provided by the manufacturer does not > seem to work (the drives still negotiate SATA-300 speed). I will try to > get my hands on another older SATA-150 drive (or a new that can be > jumpered) to verify if the culprit is the MCP55 revision (see below) or > the interface speed. Can you provide "atacontrol cap" output for one of the drives? I know in the case of Maxtor drives, there is a bug that exists in one of their disk firmwares which causes silent data corruption and/or SATA bus lockups when NCQ is used on nForce 4 chipsets. Maxtor provides a firmware update which fixes the bug. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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