From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 23:14:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F24D16A4DA for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au (vscan02.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F63343D1F for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:14:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christopher@nu.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A8C11B6D9; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:14:12 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17608-06; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:14:11 +0800 (WST) Received: from anembo.nu.org (dsl-202-173-130-73.nsw.westnet.com.au [202.173.130.73]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9BC11A6F3; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:14:11 +0800 (WST) Received: from anembo.nu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anembo.nu.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB1NEAt3018174; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:14:10 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from christopher@nu.org) Received: (from cjsv@localhost) by anembo.nu.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iB1NE9Qg018173; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:14:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from christopher@nu.org) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:14:09 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: anembo.nu.org: cjsv set sender to christopher@nu.org using -f From: Christopher Vance To: Mykel Message-ID: <20041201060915.GA33262@nu.org> References: <200412010335.iB13ZkC6064636@anembo.nu.org> <41AD4E00.5060707@mWare.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41AD4E00.5060707@mWare.ca> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:14:17 -0000 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