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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:41:20 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com>
Cc:        legioner.r@gmail.com, morten@lightworkings.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MCP55 SATA data corruption in FreeBSD 7
Message-ID:  <D73397AA-12F5-452C-BFC7-667BE9A1F330@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A1968@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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Hi

I'll look into that providing I can find HW to work on, IIRC I have =20
one in the ATA collection but I have to verify when I get  to the lab.

-S=F8ren

On 1Jul, 2008, at 11:01 , Daniel Eriksson wrote:

>
> I am having problems with silent data corruption on (some) drives
> connected to an MCP55 SATA controller.
>
> I have two servers, both running RELENG_7_0/amd64. One has the 570 =20
> Ultra
> chipset, the other has 570 SLI. Both chipsets have the MCP55 SATA
> controller.
>
> The server with 570 Ultra chipset has a bunch of older 250GB SATA-150
> drives hooked up to the MCP55 controller and it is working just fine.
> The server with 570 SLI chipset has a bunch of new SATA-300 drives
> hooked up to the MCP55 controller and it is giving me silent data
> corruption (easily detectable by running ZFS scrub, every time I run =20=

> it
> new checksum errors show up). I know the drives are good because when
> they are hooked up to another controller they work just fine.
>
> Unfortunately the drives does not have a jumper for setting SATA-150
> speed (they are Samsung 1 TB drives), and trying to force the drives =20=

> to
> SATA-150 speed with the "patch" provided by the manufacturer does not
> seem to work (the drives still negotiate SATA-300 speed). I will try =20=

> to
> get my hands on another older SATA-150 drive (or a new that can be
> jumpered) to verify if the culprit is the MCP55 revision (see below) =20=

> or
> the interface speed.
>
>
> NOT working (570 SLI)
> ---------------------
> atapci1@pci0:0:5:0:     class=3D0x010185 card=3D0x72501462 =
chip=3D0x037f10de
> rev=3D0xa2 hdr=3D0x00
>    vendor     =3D 'Nvidia Corp'
>    device     =3D 'MCP55 SATA Controller'
>    class      =3D mass storage
>    subclass   =3D ATA
>
> Working (570 Ultra)
> -------------------
> atapci1@pci0:0:5:0:     class=3D0x010185 card=3D0xcb8410de =
chip=3D0x037f10de
> rev=3D0xa3 hdr=3D0x00
>    vendor     =3D 'Nvidia Corp'
>    device     =3D 'MCP55 SATA Controller'
>    class      =3D mass storage
>    subclass   =3D ATA
>
> This is most likely related to kern/120296
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/120296) and kern/=20=

> 121396
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/121396).
>
>
> If someone else is having data corruption problems with drives =20
> connected
> to an MCP55 controller it might be worth testing if limiting the =20
> drives
> to SATA-150 makes a difference. It will most likely take me a while
> before I can verify this.
>
> ---
> Daniel Eriksson (http://www.toomuchdata.com/)
>

-S=F8ren









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