Tim Soderstrom wrote:
I am trying to jump into the world of FreeBSD and have been having some nasty problems with some things. The latest of which is the fact that FreeBSD is noting DMA timeouts with my SATA card, particularly when performing writes:
As far as I am aware it is not resolved and is actually not fixable. However I gave up on these cards a while ago so I might be out of date. See below.
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY<DSC,ERROR> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=273370735 g_vfs_done():ad4s1g[WRITE(offset=115279347712, length=131072)]error = 5 ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=276000431 .... These repeat sometimes to the point of FreeBSD going into an emergency reboot mode, although this has not yet happened since I updated to 6.0-RELEASE-p7. Speaking of, I am confused as to if that is the STABLE branch (which I want to get on)?
RELENG_6 is the current STABLE. Although it won't call itself stable if you build it, it will be named RC1. Its still STABLE though, names change prior to a release occurring and 6.1 is due shortly.
In any case, I am concerned as to whether or not these errors represent a real problem and what I can go about doing with them. This box is designed to be a file-server, so I had hoped that it would be as stable as, well, if not a rock, at least play-dough :)
This card is based on a Silicon Image chip. You might as well chuck the card I have never got a machine stable with one of these controllers, I tried three cards all based on this chip, including an Adaptec 1210SA. All the same, completely unstable. I suggest you acquire one of these instead: http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=3ware+escalade+8000+2+port Save yourself a lot of pain (really) and get one :) With one of these the rock-like stability should be easy to achieve, hopefully.
Regards, Tim S. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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