From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 04:37:39 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 2699F16A41F for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:37:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC5743D66 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:37:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a39so262955qbd for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:37:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=qit0c+uXk1aEnNURV2kMsXP3ZTVEX5YVLQaWpBExD67f5VAAv4lduczCPoh27uAI/AHbGli6HXpPOSV7xv6N8/gJA1akviTId8YMrTqIa9uExw0IP5HNl0VyA58TAIQVl5xb1KCD+nVeJuWvjDT/Ok7FoFO627wOTnRFLHySvpg= Received: by 10.65.236.16 with SMTP id n16mr1146088qbr; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id p4sm345218qba.2005.10.19.21.37.33; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:37:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:39:02 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20051019191414.GA10931@waalsdorp.nl> <20051020023047.GB10931@waalsdorp.nl> <20051020041517.GB22319@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051020041517.GB22319@odin.ac.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510192139.03026.ringworm01@gmail.com> 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 04:37:39 -0000 On Wednesday 19 October 2005 21:15, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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 Why does the SII3112 work better in FreeBSD 5.4 than in 6.0? I have a Highpoint 1820 on order but it still bugs me having to toss hardware that worked in 5.4 inorder to keep current. -Mike