From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 3 05:33:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 628CD16A40F for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 05:33:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richw@richw.org) Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.67.20.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D304A43D68 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 05:33:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richw@richw.org) Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 745A64CB9E for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whodunit.richw.org (SW-90-716-276-1.Stanford.EDU [171.66.155.243]) by smtp2.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBA34CB89 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whodunit.richw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9D43C36D; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:33:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at richw.org Received: from whodunit.richw.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (whodunit.richw.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VFTwEMxtkL8e; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.29.0.21] (evilempire.richw.org [172.29.0.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "evilempire.richw.org", Issuer "richw.org" (verified OK)) (Authenticated sender: richw) by whodunit.richw.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9249A3C36B; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:33:03 -0700 From: Rich Wales User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20061003053303.9249A3C36B@whodunit.richw.org> Subject: Re: Sata controller headache X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:33:09 -0000 Paul Bliss wrote: > I'm running 6.1 RELEASE and I've been having very annoying crashes > that I think are related to my SATA Controller. I'm using the > Promise FastTrak TX2300 controller with a Western Digital WD2500KS. I've been seeing the same kinds of errors with a Promise SATA300 TX4 controller and a pair of Seagate 300GB SATA drives. Apparently, people have been having similar problems with SATA drives on Promise controllers for quite some time now, in both FreeBSD and Linux systems. Lots of reports and requests for help, but no one so far has admitted to having a clue as to what is causing it. > I'm tempted to use atacontrol to change the mode . . . . Unfortunately, AFAIK, you can't change the mode on a SATA drive using "atacontrol". Rich Wales Palo Alto, CA, USA richw@richw.org http://www.richw.org