Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:33:32 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@freebsd.org>, "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Garcarz?=" <teknet8@o2.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA sil problems ... Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060913083215.022ccd80@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420609130351k2c1b0c2av787af1d68688c14f@mail.gmail.co m> References: <20060912203430.a01783f3.teknet8@o2.pl> <cb5206420609130351k2c1b0c2av787af1d68688c14f@mail.gmail.com>
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I also have one of these that doesn't work with FreeBSD. I just replaced=
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the controller. What is worse is there are different versions of this chip=
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some that will work with FreeBSD, but many don't.
-Derek
At 05:51 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>On 9/12/06, Micha=B3 Garcarz <teknet8@o2.pl> wrote: > Hello > > I have SAT=
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>SIL 3112 controller. Unfortunately it is not working > correctly under=20
>FreeBSD. It does not work for me, and i found on > google that it doesn't=
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>work correctly for many other people. > I tried Freebsd 4.x, 5.x and=20
>6.1. > Here are the errors which occur when system works: > > Sep 12=20
>11:03:35 multix kernel: ad6: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET > TRANSFER MODE=20
>taskqueue timeout - completing request directly > Sep 12 11:03:35 multix=
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>kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 > retry left) LBA=3D8159967 >=
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>Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA >=20
>status=3D51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=3D40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=3D8878591 > Sep=
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>11:55:36 multix kernel: ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. > RAID1=20
>array in DEGRADED mode > Sep 12 11:55:36 multix kernel: ar0: writing of=20
>Silicon Image Medley > metadata is NOT supported yet > > Do You have=20
>similar problems ? Please try to disable its RAID capabilities, and tweak=
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>some compatibility settings, if any. Sil3112 is known to be crap, but it's=
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>also known to work for many FreeBSD 6.x users. > What SATA controller=20
>could you suggest ? > I must be on card (PCI?) so i could plug in to my=20
>current server. It > have to work stable under Freebsd 6.1. It should be=
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>chip. It doesn't > have to be real hardware RAID (it can use software from=
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>BIOS). Don't use software RAID "from BIOS", use gmirror/gstripe/gvinum. --=
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