Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:14:09 +1100 (EST) From: Christopher Vance <christopher@nu.org> To: Mykel <Mykel@mWare.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out Message-ID: <20041201060915.GA33262@nu.org> In-Reply-To: <41AD4E00.5060707@mWare.ca> References: <200412010335.iB13ZkC6064636@anembo.nu.org> <41AD4E00.5060707@mWare.ca>
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:52:16PM -0500, Mykel wrote: >I don't have any solutions for you, but I'm curious to know what kind of >drives you're using... apparently SiI 3114s aren't so good with bridged >(PATA<->SATA) connections, and Seagates are mostly native... My disks are both Seagate ST3200822AS/3.01. >On my setup (SiI3112+Seagate), I get WRITE_DMA timeo's a few times a >day. Never had panics as result of the SATA tho. Okay. I have quiet if I do nothing, and it gets chatty and then dies if I try to move 10+GB to it from another place. :-( >I don't even use it very heavily, it's *just* for my .oggs. Nothing >else. It sucks. We're presently looking at 3Ware and others for a heavy >duty network setup we're doing... hoping we can make the SiIs work >instead of dropping a few grand on 3Wares... :\ but I'm not confident >the SiIs are good for anything important. The whole point of my machine is NFS and other services. I don't think I even installed X. I don't want RAID or anything extra, just disks that work. I saw that the sata_sii driver in the Linux kernel on one of my other machines said there were quirks using the 3512, but I also see that the FreeBSD driver also mentions stuff about limiting transfer size. So if that were the problem, it's claimed already solved. So I'm left with deciding what to do with this machine: change OS or pray. -- Christopher Vance
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