From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 21 21:17:35 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C6316A41A for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:17:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zao@acc.umu.se) Received: from mail.acc.umu.se (mail.acc.umu.se [130.239.18.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF3F13C48E for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:17:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zao@acc.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7B049 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:54:52 +0200 (MEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at acc.umu.se Received: from shaka.acc.umu.se (shaka.acc.umu.se [130.239.18.148]) by mail.acc.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FC424 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:54:44 +0200 (MEST) Received: by shaka.acc.umu.se (Postfix, from userid 24456) id 5140A47; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:54:44 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:54:44 +0200 From: Lars Viklund To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071021195443.GA270@shaka.acc.umu.se> References: <20071021071935.GA64397@hyperion.scode.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071021071935.GA64397@hyperion.scode.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Subject: Re: FYI: Promise TX4 silent corruption (RELENG_7) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:17:36 -0000 On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:19:35AM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote: > Hello, > > Since then I have now tried two distinct TX4 cards (but only in one > PCI slot). Both suffer from the same problem. Amazingly a SiI 3114 > *does* seem to work in the same PCI slot - no corruption, and no DMA > timeouts and whatnot that I was expecting from a SiI card. > > This was on amd64, RELENG_7. Same SATA cables used on all > drives. Drives on TX4 were also in a Supermicro hotswap enclosure, > which may or may not be related (but again, no problem with SiI). I have experienced the same kind of data corruption as you on both 6.2-RELEASE and Ubuntu 7.04 on two different machines, one P3 and one P4. The card seems to be doing naughty things to the PCI bus under load; your dmesg ought to be full of PCI timeouts. If you grep the old mailing lists for the PCI timeout errors that are produced, you'll find some messages indicating that the hardware is flawed. This seems to be worked around in the driver for Windows, since the same card, disks and machines work flawlessly on Windows 2003. -- Lars Viklund ------------------- To make it is hell. To fail is divine.