Hi I've browsed several topics on the 6300ESB SATA but found no definite answers.
Like other people I'm getting messages like this: Sep 14 16:17:39 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=181559215 Sep 14 16:17:49 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=178887855 Sep 14 16:18:25 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=177772175 Sep 14 16:18:54 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=181145967 Sep 14 16:48:25 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=111173359 Entire system is brand new. Tried to cvsup and rebuild the system today, still get the same errors and terrible disk performance. Anybody knows the status on this controller, possible fixes or planned fixes? uname: FreeBSD nwn.patnix.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Sep 14 15:20:01 UTC 2005 dmesg extract: Sep 14 16:06:41 nwn kernel: atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 Sep 14 16:06:41 nwn kernel: acd0: DVDROM <TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-C2712/1031> at ata0-slave PIO4 Sep 14 16:06:41 nwn kernel: ad2: 117800MB <HDS722512VLSA80/V33OA63A> [239340/16/63] at ata1-master SATA150 Sep 14 16:06:41 nwn kernel: ad3: 117800MB <HDS722512VLSA80/V33OA63A> [239340/16/63] at ata1-slave SATA150 Regards Roger O. Svenning Bodø - Norway _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"