From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 20:41:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB40316A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:41:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6093C43D58 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:41:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAIKfS0u006817; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:29 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <419CEFB9.7060604@DeepCore.dk> References: <419CEFB9.7060604@DeepCore.dk> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:28 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt , Maseed From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:41:35 -0000 At 7:53 PM +0100 11/18/04, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: >Maseed wrote: > >[SNIP] >>I have to point out in the above e-mail that the problem is not just >>confined to the 36GB Raptor, which might be a PATA drive with a Marvel >>chip to make it work with SATA drives, but it also plages *real* >>native SATA drives as well, since the 74GB Western Digital Raptor I >>have is a true SATA150 drive with TCQ. > >Correction, the 74GB Raptor is still not a pure or native SATA device, >it still uses the marvell PATA-SATA converter chip. Its true that it >supports TCQ but thats the same old way as the IBM deathstars used, >and not directly comaprable to the new true SATA NCQ way of things. > >>Anyhow, I am wondering if this issue has been resolved yet or not, >>either in FreeBSD-current or 5.3-RELEASE-px. > >If you want 24/7 uptime, you *really* should be bying hardware of >a quality that matches that, the SiI3112 is *not* in that league, >not even close. I am trying to pin down problems "FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out" in a new PC that I have. I had some local shop build this for me, and apparently there were "a few" miscommunications in what I thought I asked for, and what they actually built. The machine ended up with two SATA controllers: atapci0: -- on the motherboard atapci1: -- on a PCI card The hard disk is connected to the PCI card. Would that be more reliable quality hardware than the SiI3112? Also, the disk is a Western Digital WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0/02.05D02 120-gig drive. I *thought* I was ordering a Seagate drive, but it is quite likely that there was some confusion on that. Would that Western Digital SATA drive be a problem? I do have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 hard drive that I could use (after shuffling a few things around). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn =3D gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu