2TB HDD = TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 ....

[Xin LI]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Darren Reed <darrenr at fastmail.net> wrote:
> As another body that today bought a 2TB HDD, I can confirm the presence
> of kernel messages relating to READ_DMA48 with FreeBSD 8.
> The drive in question is a Hitachi one, not a Samsung.
>
> Is it the drive, system or operating system?
>
> Well, the drive works without any such error with both Windows 7 and NetBSD
> 5.1.
>
> So it looks like the finger is now pointing as a bug in FreeBSD... and if it
> is fixed in HEAD then it needs to be merged into the branch for 8.1.

Have you tried the new ahci(4) driver?  What controller are you using
by the way?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net