From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 05:01:41 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 A650A16A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:01:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malagana15@yahoo.es) Received: from web26411.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web26411.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.177.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7138743D66 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:01:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malagana15@yahoo.es) Received: (qmail 16345 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Jan 2006 05:01:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.es; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=l6zvJ49NBSmkUOwl3ut57R6zHsUqSQQIp/snCIkbX31mt3QTB2LZECrKk5xPWaRd3byG3iAavbzV6jgBgYx+MWDlhDR01CCpEKGPa72S3azzXgKNoWQEXbjZuX5kRrmxYgLq02CttiwW/Ea1v04yYzcRy5/kV+vpH4nM/gCMmSY= ; Message-ID: <20060105050138.16343.qmail@web26411.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.83.160.35] by web26411.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:01:38 CET Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:01:38 +0100 (CET) From: Heinz Suez To: Vulpes Velox , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060104215937.3ba2c636@vixen42.vulpes> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: RE: 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 05:01:41 -0000 Hi. I had the same problem a month ago with the same controller. The problem was that i bought this pci sata controller with the sil3112 for an old computer (dual p3 550, 512mb ram pc133, pci 2.1), so the transfer rate & buffer was higher than the mother board was able to deliver...in other words, the sata controller (the sil3121 chipset i mean) was not 100% backwards compatible with pci 2.1 when it should be. I tried this controller with a brand new computer and worked just fine with lots of hdd's. Now, you have 2 solutions: Sell the controller if it's a pci card or buy a more expensive card with a different chipset. There're a lot of sata chipsets that support pci 2.1 or older computers, i have seen lots of users running sata raid at full speed on p2 machines. Good luck. Vulpes Velox escribió: 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------------------------- Correo Yahoo! Comprueba qué es nuevo, aquí http://correo.yahoo.es