From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 23:24:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A9F16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:24:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from newman.alt-network.com (wsip-68-110-223-100.ks.ok.cox.net [68.110.223.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2766D43D53 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:24:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from justin@alt-network.com) Received: from [192.168.0.20] ([192.168.0.20])j0LNO9a4049603; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:24:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from justin@alt-network.com) From: "Justin L. Boss" To: Peter Risdon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:24:11 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200501210242.57141.justin@alt-network.com> <1106297711.1011.96.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <1106297711.1011.96.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501211724.12088.justin@alt-network.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on newman.alt-network.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/533/Sat Oct 16 20:09:44 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on newman.alt-network.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: 300GIG SATA drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:24:13 -0000 Sorry, yes 5.3R to be exact. I was also informed that this was covered in the stable list under the topic "Bad Desk". I look, and it pointed to Maxtor desk drives as being the problem. And yes I'm using a Maxtor disk. But it insinuated in the list that Maxtor large drives quality was bad and it was not a problem with FreeBSD OS. But I have installed Linux and NetBSD on the same drives without a hitch. I'm beginning to think it may be FreeBSD. Any insight would help. Help, Justin On Friday 21 January 2005 02:55 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:42 -0600, Justin L. Boss wrote: > > Is anyone having problems with SATA drives? I keep getting DMA errors > > that lock up the system. > > Assuming you are using FreeBSD 5.x then yes, this is a known problem, > there has been some traffic about this issue on this list in recent > months. I filed a pr about a specific case of this a few weeks ago but > it doesn't seem to have progressed. > > I have to say I think it is a major problem. It's becoming increasingly > difficult to build FreeBSD machines with up to date commodity PC > motherboards and large storage drives. SATA drives above about 200GB > often seem to suffer from this bug under 5.x, so you need 4.x, which > doesn't work with all up-to-date motherboards. So what do you do? > > Peter.