On v, júl 08, 2012 at 21:37:47 +0200, Robert wrote: > Hi, > > I had similar problems with a SiI3512A card some time ago, and ended up > using just the internal ports. > > Since I had some time today, I installed i386/mp-current on a spare > computer and tested with two SATA disks. Writing 300GB of zeros (dd) in > parallel to both disks showed no error. So I assume they stability of > the 3512 depends on other factors (mainboard, IRQs, moon phase...).
My errors were triggered when I was copying from disk1 to disk2, both connected to the SIL card. (in this case this was a 2 port card), not when copying something in parallel to both disks from a separate location. I think this makes the difference. [...] > 2) jmb0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "JMicron JMB363 IDE/SATA" rev 0x03 > Worked nicely. According to systat it provided around 30MB/sec write > speed, whereas the SiI3512A only had around 20MB/sec. This is good to know, I'm sure I'll prefer this kind of device in the future. Daniel -- LÉVAI Dániel PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F
