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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:58:49 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Oliver Schonrock <oliver@realtsp.com>
Subject:   Re: TIMEOUT/FAILURE_WRITE_DMA on ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150
Message-ID:  <200803041058.55266.josh@tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <47CD11EB.4070803@realtsp.com>
References:  <20080303200219.GF80576@hoeg.nl> <20080304073932.GJ80576@hoeg.nl> <47CD11EB.4070803@realtsp.com>

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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:10:03 am Oliver Schonrock wrote:
> We have a Dell SC1435 with the above SATA controller which was running
> FreeBSD6.2 fine for about 3 months.
>
> We re-built it with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE from scratch (ie complete new
> install from CD). Installation failed while copying base system from CD
> to disk.
>
> Suspecting a possible hardware issue we rebuilt it again with FreeBSD
> 6.3. It built and ran fine, thereby eliminating any hardware problems.
>
> Repeated attempts of installing FBSD7.0-RELEASE continued to fail at
> slightly different points, but always when writing to disk. Virtual
> Console 2 showed the following errors:
>
> NMI ISA 20 EISA
> ad4: TIMEOUT WRITE_DMA
> aNMI ISA 20, EISA
> FAILURE - WRITE_DMA. retrying
>
> I suspect this is related to other (S)ATA related problems which have
> been reported on this list, eg:
>
> <http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1489302+0+archive/2008/fr=
eebs
>d-current/20080120.freebsd-current>
>
>
> I would be happy to provide more information to help debug this problem,
> however it is slightly difficult as I cannot even get the system
> installed under 7.0.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get better info. I could also look into
> providing remote access to the machine.
>
> Thanks
>
> Oliver Schonrock

There are known issues with the HT1000, consider yourself lucky it works wi=
th=20
6.2-R, for a lot of people it doesn't even work there.  Last I heard someon=
e=20
had gotten problematic HT1000 hardware in to sos@'s hands and he was going =
to=20
find a fix, however I stopped paying attention when I started migrating off=
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the hardware.  There are tons of mailing list posts from myself and others =
if=20
you want the full scoop, as well as at least one open PR.

=2D-=20
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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