From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 04:25:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFA616A423 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alson+ml@alm.flutnet.org) Received: from altrade.nijmegen.internl.net (altrade.nijmegen.internl.net [217.149.192.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507CC43D66 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:25:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alson+ml@alm.flutnet.org) Received: from tafi.alm.flutnet.org by altrade.nijmegen.internl.net via tafi.dsl.alm.flutnet.org [145.99.245.99] with ESMTP id j9K4P68p025105 (8.13.2/2.04); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:25:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tafi.alm.flutnet.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4CFF92B; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tafi.alm.flutnet.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tafi.alm.flutnet.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00408-17; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:25:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tafi.alm.flutnet.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 57A1EF927; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:25:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:25:01 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20051020042501.GC10931@waalsdorp.nl> References: <20051019191414.GA10931@waalsdorp.nl> <20051020023047.GB10931@waalsdorp.nl> <20051020041517.GB22319@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051020041517.GB22319@odin.ac.hmc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at alm.flutnet.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with PCI SATA controller (bug in ATA driver? both ATAng and ATAmkIII) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:25:13 -0000 (Please CC me in replies as I'm not a subscriber of this list) * Brooks Davis [2005-10-20 06:15]: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:30:48AM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > Since this is a completely different mainboard, it seems clearly a > > software issue to me. The built-in ICH6 controller works fine however, > > so it may be PDC*0518/SII311* specific (which basically means any PCI > > SATA controller available locally). > > The SII3112 is a piece of crap that won't work reliably. Order > something better (Soren recommends Promise cards). That's why I ordered a Promise SATAII 150 TX4. Only when I encountered the problems described in my emails, I got a controller from the only different brand I could find: SII (which costs about 125 euro because it has an Adaptec sticker on it, this thing is definitely going back), to rule out a broken controller. Most of my testing is done with the PDC40518, I occasionally use the SII3112A for comparison purposes (just an extra data point). Because the Promise cards are supposed to be pretty well supported, I'm suprised to encounter these issues in both ATAng and ATAmkIII. BTW: The ICH6 is now being stress tested for 5 hours, and still working fine, so the rest of the system is definitely stable. Alson