From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 04:15:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC20016A41F for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:15:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FBD43D62 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:15:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j9K4FHOU023552; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:15:17 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j9K4FHUc023548; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:15:17 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:15:17 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Alson van der Meulen Message-ID: <20051020041517.GB22319@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20051019191414.GA10931@waalsdorp.nl> <20051020023047.GB10931@waalsdorp.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051020023047.GB10931@waalsdorp.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PCI SATA controller (bug in ATA driver? both ATAng and ATAmkIII) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:15:22 -0000 On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:30:48AM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > (Please CC me in replies as I'm not a subscriber of this list) > > Update: I tested with an i810-based mainboard (Celeron 1GHz, RTL8139 > ethernet, Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller, 3 SATA disks in RAID 5, > FreeBSD 6.0-RC1). It remained stable for two hours. I suspect this is > because it has far less bandwith (iostat showed only about 3MB/s to the > disks, as opposed to 12MB/s with the i915 mainboard). After I added a dd > if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=128k (this increased the bandwidth usage to the > disk to about 9MB/s according to iostat), it crashed in about 40 > minutes. This suggests that it crashes because of the large amount of > I/O. However, it's only about 10MB/s per disk (for three disks), so it > doesn't seem to be that exotic to me. > > Since this is a completely different mainboard, it seems clearly a > software issue to me. The built-in ICH6 controller works fine however, > so it may be PDC*0518/SII311* specific (which basically means any PCI > SATA controller available locally). The SII3112 is a piece of crap that won't work reliably. Order something better (Soren recommends Promise cards). -- Brooks