I tried the 11/29 snapshot, it is indeed worse. I got a failure during the install's fsck.

The errors I got were:
ad4: Warning - WRITE_DMA recovered from missing interrupt
ad4: Failure - WRITE_DMA status=ff<I couldn't copy the codes here, sorry>

followed by lots of:
ad4: timeout sending command=ca
ad4: error issuing DMA command

All along I have experienced "missing interrupt" errors, along with DMA write errors.

-Derek


At 02:01 PM 11/30/2003, Scott Long wrote:
Robert Watson wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote:

Hi Guys :)

Sorry if i waste your time. IŽm a freeBSD noob and need some help.
I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to
buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the "Silicon
ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller" onboard (Asus A7N8X Motherboard). I
didnŽt find a driver in the Hardware Notes of FreeBSD 5.1, and on the
Producer homepage are only ready Linuxkernels avaible
(http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/searchDirect/?searchString=Sil+3112A&searchType=allwords&searchby=keywords&r=0.8157617).
So can anyone tell me if i can get a SATA disk run? I donŽt want to
boot from it, just read and write. Buying a new disk only for windows
use is wasted money

We're having a pretty lengthy discussion about these controllers on this list right now. I suggest you read the archives. Bottom line, the controller is supported, but it's problematic. The ATA maintainer has working controllers, but there are those of us that experience data corruption, and at least one user that can't use his drive at all when connected to said controller.

I believe a workaround was recently committed to improve behavior on older cards using that chipset. Specifically the following change to ata-chipset.c: revision 1.48 date: 2003/11/28 19:01:28; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +6 -2 Workaround for errata on early versions of the sii3112.

    Approved by: re@
Does this make any difference in your configuration?
Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research

This commit only fixes a silent data corruption issue. I believe that the issue at hand involves DMA not working at all.

Scott

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