Do you have a way to reproduce this? I have a 6501 with 2GB msata and haven't seen the problem here.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:45:41PM -0800, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote: > Greetings, > > Any thoughts as to how to get around this - it's only been up for a few days. > Rebooting my home router every 24 hours is not spouse endearing behavior :) > > Chris > > On 28Nov2011, at 14.30, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > > here is the key error message. it means your whole ahci disk has disappeared > (and anything you can still run is happening from cache.) > > > > -- > > ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. > > ahci0: failed to reset port during timeout handling, disabling it > > -- > > > > likely a reboot will fix it. this is a known problem with ahci driver and > intel ahci controllers. > > > > the "failed to reset port" and "softreset slot was still active" problems > become really obvious once you start maxing out disks on an ahci controller > with a softraid array. they rarely present problems in normal use! but, the > SSD sata drive may evoke different behavior for some reason. i think > continuous runs of iogen over a RAID1 array might bring out similar issues all > by itself, even with regular hard disks > > > > dragonflybsd's port of openbsd's ahci driver has incorporated several of > workarounds for problems directly related to this. (reset this when that > happens, etc..) that might be a good place to start looking, if you can easily > reproduce the problem then you would know quickly when a ported fix from their > driver has helped. > > -- > f f /g ? > Check my PGP key here: https://www.asgaard.org/~cdl/cdl.asc > Current vCard here: https://www.asgaard.org/~cdl/cdl.vcf
