Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:42:07 +0100 From: Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> To: tim@timandcorey.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DMA timeouts with Adapter ASH-1205SA SATA PCI Card Message-ID: <444FE92F.5060309@helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49439.70.238.70.107.1146037012.squirrel@webmail.timandcorey.com> References: <49439.70.238.70.107.1146037012.squirrel@webmail.timandcorey.com>
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Tim Soderstrom wrote: > I am trying to jump into the world of FreeBSD and have been having some > nasty problems with some things. The latest of which is the fact that > FreeBSD is noting DMA timeouts with my SATA card, particularly when > performing writes: As far as I am aware it is not resolved and is actually not fixable. However I gave up on these cards a while ago so I might be out of date. See below. > ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY<DSC,ERROR> > error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=273370735 > g_vfs_done():ad4s1g[WRITE(offset=115279347712, length=131072)]error = 5 > ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=276000431 > .... > > These repeat sometimes to the point of FreeBSD going into an emergency > reboot mode, although this has not yet happened since I updated to > 6.0-RELEASE-p7. Speaking of, I am confused as to if that is the STABLE > branch (which I want to get on)? RELENG_6 is the current STABLE. Although it won't call itself stable if you build it, it will be named RC1. Its still STABLE though, names change prior to a release occurring and 6.1 is due shortly. > In any case, I am concerned as to whether or not these errors represent a > real problem and what I can go about doing with them. This box is designed > to be a file-server, so I had hoped that it would be as stable as, well, > if not a rock, at least play-dough :) This card is based on a Silicon Image chip. You might as well chuck the card I have never got a machine stable with one of these controllers, I tried three cards all based on this chip, including an Adaptec 1210SA. All the same, completely unstable. I suggest you acquire one of these instead: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=3ware+escalade+8000+2+port Save yourself a lot of pain (really) and get one :) With one of these the rock-like stability should be easy to achieve, hopefully. > Regards, > > Tim S. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Cheers, Dominic
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