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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        srwadleigh <srw@udor.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.1-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA soft error
Message-ID:  <20060609145253.J60598@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <4484A302.8050107@udor.net>
References:  <4484A302.8050107@udor.net>

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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, srwadleigh wrote:

> I have 6.1-RELEASE installed on a Supermicro SuperServer 6014P-TR
> with Supermicro motherboard: Super X6DHP-TG 
> http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DHP-TG.cfm
>
> I have four SATA drives attached to the internal backplane which uses
> the following controller, I am Not using the onboard RAID features:
>
>    Marvell 88SX6081 4-port SATA Controller with 3rd-Party Adaptec
>    AIC-8110(4x drive), RAID 0, 1, JBOD support
>
> The problem I am seeing occurs with the fourth drive, ad10, and appears
> on all read/write operations:
>
> ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 soft error (ECC corrected) LBA=293046767
> kernel:ad10: WARNING - WRITE_DMA soft error (ECC corrected) LBA=12393823
> kernel:ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA soft error (ECC corrected) LBA=12480567
>
> This same warning message appears on 6.0-RELEASE and 6.1-STABLE

I have problems with a similar chassis w/ SCSI and bay 3 throwing spurious 
errors on a number of systems, so I think its just poor backplane design 
on SuperMicro's part. Try getting them to replace your backplane board.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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