Is your card plugged into a riser card? We had similar problems (random
corruption) with a 7506-8 card. The workaround was to set the speed for
that PCI slot to 33MHz (rather than Auto or 66MHz). I think this tech
note describes our problem:
http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10848
(Read
I get this error the first time after booting that I try to access my
EIDE Castlewood drive:
ad2: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0)ad2: DMA
problem fallback to PIO mode
It works fine, but of course it's slower than it could be. It's done
this since I first got the drive. I'
Mike Grissom wrote:
> Where can I find the patch for the syncache bug that causes the systems
> to reboot for no reason? I see alot of posts about the patch, but no
> url for it. And I also see that it was supposed to be submitted to cvs
> a couple days ago. Thanks!
It just went in:
jlemon
Last night one of our servers panicked with the message "ffs_blkfree:
bad size." The kernel is from early March 4 (PST).
Below is a backtrace and the versions of the files in /sys/ufs/ffs. I
have a kernel dump for anyone interested in looking into this problem;
email me and I'll get it to you.
H