Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:18:38 +0100 (CET) From: Heinz Suez <malagana15@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Serious SATA problem Message-ID: <20051107211838.101.qmail@web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Hi community, I'm having a huge hardware issue. I have spent a lot of money in new hardware and don't want to sell it all. I own a DFI P2XBL/D motherboard with Intel 440BX chipset and recently bought an Omega 102 SATA PCI controller with SIL3112A chipset + 1 SATA2 HDD Western Digital 120GB 8MB buffer (Model WD1200JS, the drive is jumpered to work at 150 MB/sec). The motherboard meets PCI 2.1 specifications and no aditional pci cards are installed, only the sata controller and a GeForce2 MX in the AGP slot. I have 256 MB of apacer registered ecc ram. An LG cdrom and no other hdd is installed rather than my new sata hdd. I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 with no problems at all but my problem is that i get the following error when the system starts: ad6: FAILURE - Read_DMA status=51 <ready,dsc,error> error = 4 <aborted> LBA=152543 spec_getpages: (ad6s1a) I/O read failure: (error=5) Bp 0xcbe8a2ec vp 0xc1c08068 size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage: 7, pindex: 63, pcount:16 vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1(init). This errors appears all the time without allowing me to use the system. I have changed memory sticks but didn't solved the problem at all. Looks like writing to the disk works great but reading the disk is causing problems. I have to mention that when i installed the OS i received the following warning: WARNING: A geometry of 232581/16/63 for ad6 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry...and then the disk geometry is set to 14593 cyls / 255 heads / 63 sectors. But the OS was happy with this setting at installation. I haven't been able to use my pc in 2 months and really don't know what to do. Perhaphs there's an option in the bios that should be enabled...who knows. Please i need help. Thanx in advance. Heinz ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es
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