Hi. I had the same problem a month ago with the same controller. The problem was that i bought this pci sata controller with the sil3112 for an old computer (dual p3 550, 512mb ram pc133, pci 2.1), so the transfer rate & buffer was higher than the mother board was able to deliver...in other words, the sata controller (the sil3121 chipset i mean) was not 100% backwards compatible with pci 2.1 when it should be. I tried this controller with a brand new computer and worked just fine with lots of hdd's. Now, you have 2 solutions: Sell the controller if it's a pci card or buy a more expensive card with a different chipset. There're a lot of sata chipsets that support pci 2.1 or older computers, i have seen lots of users running sata raid at full speed on p2 machines. Good luck. Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: I am getting entries like this in dmesg. ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=355277839 ad10: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=358666287
smartctl -t long /dev/ad10 shows it to be good though. The results from the times I have run it show it completing successfully every time. I believe I have no reason to suspect a bad disk and it just a crappy chip. From what I have read in the mailing list archives, I believe this to be true. Any one have any opinions otherwise on this or the like? The machine this is running on has releng_5 on it. I was wondering if any one had any suggestions on a good for a good sata pci card that preferably has 4 connectors on it. SiI 3112 sysctl entry if any one is curious. dev.atapci.1.%desc: SiI 3112 SATA150 controller dev.atapci.1.%driver: atapci dev.atapci.1.%location: slot=11 function=0 dev.atapci.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x1095 device=0x3112 subvendor=0x1095 subdevice=0x6112 class=0x010400 dev.atapci.1.%parent: pci1 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --------------------------------- Correo Yahoo! Comprueba qué es nuevo, aquí http://correo.yahoo.es _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
