On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 07:03:02PM -0700, Dylan Reinhold wrote: > I will keep digging and see if I can atlease see where the ata drive > is getting these errors. And if I am real lucky find a way to make > my card play nicer with DragonFly. Well until I corrupt my drive ;-) > > I was going to go out and get a new card, but maybe this will keep > me on track to see if I can make it a bit better.
Before trashing your drive or buying a new card, try natacontrol mode ad6 PIO4 before running rsync or cpdup. This slows the thing, but you may be able to avoid the DMA errors. Cheers.