From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 03:52:24 2006 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 DC5AD16A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:52:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from S1.cableone.net (s1.cableone.net [24.116.0.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4743D55 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:52:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.vulpes (unverified [24.119.122.41]) by S1.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S1) with ESMTP id 42088644 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:52:52 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:59:37 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060104215937.3ba2c636@vixen42.vulpes> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NotAscii: charset=us-ascii X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 231, in=394, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.122.41 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Subject: SiI 3112 time out problems and suggestions for a good sata controller. 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: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:52:25 -0000 I am getting entries like this in dmesg. ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=355277839 ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=358666287 smartctl -t long /dev/ad10 shows it to be good though. The results from the times I have run it show it completing successfully every time. I believe I have no reason to suspect a bad disk and it just a crappy chip. From what I have read in the mailing list archives, I believe this to be true. Any one have any opinions otherwise on this or the like? The machine this is running on has releng_5 on it. I was wondering if any one had any suggestions on a good for a good sata pci card that preferably has 4 connectors on it. SiI 3112 sysctl entry if any one is curious. dev.atapci.1.%desc: SiI 3112 SATA150 controller dev.atapci.1.%driver: atapci dev.atapci.1.%location: slot=11 function=0 dev.atapci.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1095 device=0x3112 subvendor=0x1095 subdevice=0x6112 class=0x010400 dev.atapci.1.%parent: pci1