From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 22:18:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBBE16A533 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:18:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: from kiwi-computer.com (keira.kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9189D13C459 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:18:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rick@kiwi-computer.com) Received: (qmail 56979 invoked by uid 2001); 16 Apr 2007 22:18:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:18:42 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070416221842.GA56883@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <55456.62.212.122.219.1176733664.squirrel@webmail.ledisez.net> <86ps64nzu3.fsf@dwp.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86ps64nzu3.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: [ZFS] Problems with SATA disks (SET TRANSFERT MODE ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:18:48 -0000 On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:44:36PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > "Romain LE DISEZ" writes: > > But, when I try to copy a lot of little files (eg: the source tree), I get > > the following messages on console : > > ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - > > completing request directly > > ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - > > completing request directly > > ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing > > request directly > > ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing > > request directly > > ad6: WARNING - SET_MULTI taskqueue timeout - completing request directly > > ad6: FAILURE - FLUSHCACHE timed out I was gonna ask-- Is this a Promise chipset? > I have the same problem with two different Promise chips. It's not > limited to ZFS, though ZFS seems to make it worse. This is a known problem. I'm not sure if linux handles the Promise chips better-- I'm testing that tomorrow. From stepping through our ATA code, it seems like the card is just not responsive. For instance, on certain Promise cards you cannot do: atacontrol detach $promiseChannel atacontrol attach $promiseChannel or: atacontrol reinit $promiseChannel Which is weird, because the other 3 channels are being used at the same time without any problems. My advice: Stay away from Promise, or at least the "Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller" but I've heard the same horror stories with numerous other chips. -- Rick C. Petty