From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 9 20:27:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA5516A419 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2888F13C44B for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:27:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l99KQsXt027883 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:26:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <470BE3F8.6000807@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:26:32 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20071009195934.GA13187@outcold.yadt.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071009195934.GA13187@outcold.yadt.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:26:54 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Subject: Re: Promise SATA controllers & FreeBSD-7 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, 09 Oct 2007 20:27:02 -0000 David Taylor wrote: > Well, its been almost 2 months since this was last mentioned (unless I > missed something), and nothing appears to have moved since, well, the > problem first appeared many months prior to that. > > So as the branch for -7 is (hopefully) approaching, I thought I'd see if > anyone had any news or ideas on this rather irritating problem. Of course > the main reason for my post is entirely selfish -- I'd like to experiment > with ZFS, but system instability caused by even moderate disk usage is > hardly conducive to worthwhile testing... > > I, too, am seeing the now infamous: > > adX: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=... > > messages after simple commands like (cd /usr/ports; make search key=bonnie) > > In my case, ad4 and ad6, connected to a Promise PDC20579 on-board SATA > controller. I'm working on this problem, but on generic ATA controllers, not on Promise in particular. Not sure how different the Promise controllers are and whether what I fix will affect them. I'll let you know when I have something to test, though. > > This system has been essentially entirely stable whilst running 6-STABLE > for the past several years. > > To me, this is a serious problem which will stop me from using FreeBSD-7. > > If there is any way to help diagnose this problem, I'm willing to give > what assistance I can, but I'm not too sure where to begin... > > Alternatively, if anyone can recommend a cheap PCI SATA card which is > known to work well with FreeBSD-7, I might just end up buying that... > 3ware, Areca, Highpoint, Adaptec. All four companies are active in supporting FreeBSD. There are good offerings from LSI as well if you're willing to spend more money. Scott