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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:25:59 +0200
From:      Unix <unix@dominique-werner.com>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error	(retrying	request)	LBA=11441599
Message-ID:  <42F9C827.6080601@dominique-werner.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050810024618.GA8198@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>
References:  <42F7F7E8.1020507@mail.uni-mainz.de> <42F9009E.3030601@mac.com>	<42F9609E.1010207@goldsword.com>	<20050810023111.GA2913@FS.denninger.net> <20050810024618.GA8198@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net>

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Matthias Buelow wrote:

>Karl Denninger wrote:
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>>SII chipsets were ok in 4.x, but the newer ATA code broke badly with them.
>>I've had a PR open on this since February, and many others have reported
>>similar issues.  The problems still exist in the 6.x-BETA releases I've
>>checked out, and are in some cases MORE severe (for me anyway) than they are
>>in 5.4.
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>
>Well, it doesn't affect just the SII chips.. I see the same on an
>Intel ICH6 chipset but never after the kernel has mounted the root
>fs. Sometimes it takes several attempts until it manages to do so,
>though. The machine works w/o any such problems on other OSes. I've
>deferred update of another machine (which is a hosted box and cannot
>afford random hangs at boot) because of general flakeyness of the
>ATA/SATA code in 5.4 (significantly worse than with 5.3, imho). If
>these issues don't go away completely soon (in 6.x) I'll have to
>look for some alternative system which doesn't make such a fuss
>with mainstream hardware.
>
>mkb.
>
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i knew about the problems with the sii chipset, had no idea it was just 
as bad with the ich6 chipset, I  have a Seagate 160gb SATA drive on an 
Intel SATA controller so far no problems though in 5.4-stable, my system 
did not like 6 at all, 7 was fine again..



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