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Date:      Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:52:17 +1000
From:      David Cecil <david.cecil@nokia.com>
To:        rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org, piso@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS + replacing failing hard-drive.
Message-ID:  <46284701.8080107@nokia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070420004131.GA65715@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
References:  <20070418104155.GA31727@eschew.pusen.org>	<86hcrdlqak.fsf@dwp.des.no>	<20070418144103.GB31727@eschew.pusen.org>	<20070418155156.GB20441@keira.kiwi-computer.com>	<20070418180200.GA32061@eschew.pusen.org>	<86odlku5xg.fsf@dwp.des.no>	<20070419173316.GA57227@keira.kiwi-computer.com>	<4627EC02.8070103@nokia.com> <4627F7BE.5090606@mawer.org> <20070420004131.GA65715@keira.kiwi-computer.com>

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Just to be clear, I've seen these errors for SATA and PATA drives.

Dave

ext Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:14:06AM +1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
>   
>> Just another "me too". I've seen (S)ATA-related problems on 6.x (mostly 
>> 6.0) based machines, in some cases these appear to have been physical 
>> drive errors,  but I haven't been able to verify each individual case. I 
>> don't know if quality control is sorely lacking on newer SATA drives or 
>> if it's something else... it has caused me to question whether or not 
>> there might be a driver/OS level issue...
>>     
>
> I'm reluctant to point fingers at the drives (although this is often a good
> first guess)..  I have access to a few dozen disks from two separate SATA
> batches.  I've noticed that when the identical drives are on the same
> Promise controller, FreeBSD reports DMA timeouts occasionally.  I've never
> seen anything similar on Ubuntu, although since the timeouts are
> unpredictable it's possible there may be throughput differences between the
> two OSes.
>
> -- Rick C. Petty
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