From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 07:42:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4AB16A41F for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:42:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B15743D45 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:42:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [172.18.2.1] (axiell-gw1.novi.dk [130.225.63.24]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8J7fvWE066260; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:41:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <432E6C11.6010201@DeepCore.dk> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:43:13 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C. Shultz" References: <200509181616.59083.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200509181616.59083.ringworm01@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.12 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@DeepCore.dk Subject: Re: FreeBSD6.0 BETA5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:42:13 -0000 Michael C. Shultz wrote: > Hi, for the first time FreeBSD 6.0 recognizes my SATA drives, yippie! = =20 > Yesterday's 6.0BETA4 would not initialize ad4 and ad6 would freeze up u= nder=20 > moderate writes so whatever changed between BETA4 and BETA5 has been a= real=20 > improvement. There has been no real ATA changes between 4 and 5.. >=20 > Under FreeBSD5.4 both drives always initialize just fine, but even aft= er this=20 > new BETA5 I stille have to boot the machine multiple times before both = drives=20 > initialize, usually just one or the other will. Also dmesg is still s= howing=20 > some sort of error "ata2: FAILURE - oversized DMA transfer attempt 870= 4 >=20 > 7680". The oversized DMA diag is because ataraid does not limit its write=20 size, and that I'm looking into.. > FreeBSD ringworm.mechee.com 6.0-BETA5 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #2: Sun Sep 18 = > 14:40:15 PDT 2005 =20 > root@ringworm.mechee.com:/usr6/obj/usr6/src/sys/RINGWORM6 i386 >=20 > Drive ad6 still locks up with moderate writes and freezes the entire sy= stem=20 > under BETA5 You should try -current where I have committed substantial updates to=20 the timeout code that might help you when the failure happens. The timeouts and datacorruption on the SiI3112 can only be solved 100%=20 by throwing it out and substituting it with a real SATA controller... --=20 -S=F8ren