Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:50:43 +0100 (CET) From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) To: Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@cox.net> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA corruption in DMA mode Message-ID: <m18WzYZ-003pS9C@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <3E1D08CE.D5E79563@cox.net>
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> Janet Sullivan wrote: > [..] > I broke the mirror and tested each drive separately on the HPT > controller in DMA mode - there were no problems. I recreated the mirror > and the corruption of large files came back. The problem only occurs > when the two drives are in a RAID1 array on the HPT controller and DMA > is enabled. I would think that if this was a hardware problem, one of > the two drives in the RAID1 array would have had some corruption > problems when it was taken out of the array and addressed as a single > drive. Suggestions? It could be a problem with your power supply: in mirror mode both drives are active at the same time. You could try to give one drive some constant work while you test the other drive. Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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