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Date:      Wed, 08 Jan 2003 07:05:35 -0700
From:      Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA corruption in DMA mode
Message-ID:  <3E1C302F.6697A823@cox.net>
References:  <3E1C2EA6.18C86871@vzavenue.net>

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P.S.  I've seen absolutely no ata error messages (command timeout,
etc.).

Janet Sullivan wrote:
> 
> If I copy large (500 meg) files between directories with DMA on, the
> copy becomes corrupt.  If I turn DMA off and use PIO mode, the copy is
> fine.  Smaller files do not seem to trigger this problem. I am using
> STABLE from a couple of days ago, although I think I may have been
> having this problem for a longer time.  I have a Soyo KT333 Platinum
> Dragon motherboard with a built in Highpoint IDE raid controller.  The
> corruption happens on my ar0 array, which is RAID 1 and consists of two
> Western Digital 40g drives.  fsck has never found any problems with
> these drives.  I'm using 80-pin cables, and the array used to run clean
> (around 4.6 and before).

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