Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

[Roger O. Svenning]

> > Hi
> >
> > I've browsed several topics on the 6300ESB SATA but found no
definite
> > answers.
> >
> > Like other people I'm getting messages like this:
> > Sep 14 16:17:39 nwn kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2
> > retries left) LBA=181559215
> >
> > Entire system is brand new.
> >
> > Tried to cvsup and rebuild the system today, still get the same
errors
> > and terrible disk performance.
> >
> > Anybody knows the status on this controller, possible fixes or
planned
> > fixes?
> 
> You should try 6.0-beta4 as that contains the solution to whatever
> ATA problems you might have on 5.x. Let me know how that goes.
> 
> Søren Schmidt
> sos at FreeBSD.org
> 

cvsup running as I'm writing this

Would I waste my time trying to enable raid on this controller?

Roger O. Svenning
Bodø - Norway