From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 21:18:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EA716A424 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:18:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malagana15@yahoo.es) Received: from web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.177.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CE7443DB1 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:18:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malagana15@yahoo.es) Received: (qmail 103 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Nov 2005 21:18:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.es; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=t01Tk5tahAlyU8D6wRqMOo5Zzv0EC+HjKmk73X6S0bC8W//fZf9vFXDPbr267lbLplQFvs3pAZANM0b6IUN42r+3ZI0HUhylxMem7eRK8K6L2aZXZlDRBgnnIIrbr7SBvEJQFR8sfQJsFcuU8onHH4IPFxXSdN/L9AloCGIrwQw= ; Message-ID: <20051107211838.101.qmail@web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [201.246.30.111] by web26413.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:18:38 CET Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:18:38 +0100 (CET) From: Heinz Suez To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Serious SATA problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:18:52 -0000 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 error = 4 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