From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 13:24:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C09D16A419 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:24:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zanecb@midwest-connections.com) Received: from mail.midwest-connections.com (mail.midwest-connections.com [69.148.152.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F07443D8B for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:24:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanecb@midwest-connections.com) Received: (qmail 23704 invoked by uid 503); 9 Jun 2006 13:26:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zerda) (zanecb@69.155.32.130) by 0 with ESMTPA; 9 Jun 2006 13:26:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:29:08 -0500 From: "Zane C.B." To: "Dave Stephens" Message-ID: <20060609082908.3f61a0c1@zerda> In-Reply-To: <6845d25a0606082035q527a8f6bx97a82fe0698fbf43@mail.gmail.com> References: <6845d25a0606082035q527a8f6bx97a82fe0698fbf43@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Midwest Connections Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Error X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:24:08 -0000 On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:35:58 -0400 "Dave Stephens" wrote: > OS Version: FreeBSD 6.1 > > What appears to be repeated failures keep occurring with the SATA > drive or controller in my server. The error is a series of 3 > repeated messages where the only difference appears to be the offset > and the LBA. All of the hardware in this server is brand new and is > not believed to be in faulty. If anyone could tell me what is going > on with this, or if it is a known issue point me at how I might patch > something or otherwise fix it. The server does not go down after the > error, but the error is disconcerting none the less and leaves me > worrying about hard drive data integrity. > > Sample Error Message...... > -------------------------------------------------- > > g_vfs_done() : ad8s4e[WRITE(offset=59959787520, length=131072)]error=5 > ad8: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=xxxxxxxxxxx > ad8: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51 error=10 > LBA=xxxxxxxxxxx > > > Here is some related info cut out of dmesg..... > > SATA Drive > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ad8: 286168MB at ata4-master SATA150 > > SATA Controllers > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > atapci1: port > 0xeff0-0xeff7,0xefe4-0xefe7,0xefa8-0xefaf,0xefe0-0xefe3,0xef > 90-0xef9f irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci0 > ata2: on atapci1 > ata3: on atapci1 > atapci2: port > 0xefa0-0xefa7,0xef8c-0xef8f,0xef80-0xef87,0xef88-0xef8b,0xe > f60-0xef6f mem 0xfebfac00-0xfebfadff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci0 > ata4: on atapci2 > ata5: on atapci2 > > Note that atapci1 is built onto the motherboard and doesn't seem to be > supported by FreeBSD at this time (no HDDs can be found during install > when they are attached to it.) The SiI 3112 is very flaky. I suggest going with a highpoint. I do not know about the SiS chip there.