Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:43:56 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SATA300 TX4 card issues Message-ID: <86644733fn.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <46A7F02C.9000502@fusiongol.com> (Nathan Butcher's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 09\:51\:56 %2B0900") References: <46A7F02C.9000502@fusiongol.com>
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Nathan Butcher <n-butcher@fusiongol.com> writes: > My system is amd64 with 2GB of RAM, four 500GB drives connected to my > Promise SATA300 TX4 card in a raidz1 pool. For testing purposes, I have > created a volume in my zpool, which houses a UFS file system created and > accessed via GELI. I then use samba to copy data to and from the volume > on another machine. > > While writing data to my volume, I am getting erratic CKSUM errors being > "discovered" coming from my ZFS raidz1 (a look at zpool status after the > write confirms this), and scrubbing the zpool just seems to discover > more CKSUM errors. "zpool status" is telling me to replace some of my > disks. This never happened before. There is a known problem with Promise controllers and ZFS, probably related to ATA_FLUSHCACHE. The only known solution is to switch to a non-Promise controller - Intel ICH works fine. The ata maintainer is aware of the issue but doesn't seem interested in fixing it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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