Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

[Roger O. Svenning]

> On 14/09/2005, at 17:36, Roger O. Svenning wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> 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?
> 
> Depends, its software RAID, so support relies on ataraid supporting
> the on-disk metadata format, but you can try to setup a RAID on the
> disks, it will get picked up if known..
> 
> Søren Schmidt
> sos at FreeBSD.org

Ok, 6.0-beta4 built and installed successfully.

I'm sorry to report I still get the timeouts.

On the other hand it does recognize the (old) raid arrays now.

Not sure where to go from here?

dmesg extract:
FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 #1: Wed Sep 14 21:16:19 UTC 2005
    root at nwn.patnix.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2994.90-MHz 686-class CPU)
....
atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f irq 18 at device 31.2
on pci0
atapci0: failed to enable memory mapping!
....
acd0: DVDROM <TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-C2712/1031> at ata0-slave UDMA33
ad2: 117800MB <HDS722512VLSA80 V33OA63A> at ata1-master SATA150
ad3: 117800MB <HDS722512VLSA80 V33OA63A> at ata1-slave SATA150
ad3: Intel calc=1a354950 meta=8d1aa4a8
ar0: 117800MB <Adaptec HostRAID RAID1> status: BROKEN
ar0: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
ar0: disk1 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
ar1: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID1 array in DEGRADED mode
ar1: 117799MB <Intel MatrixRAID RAID1> status: DEGRADED
ar1: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
ar1: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad3 at ata1-slave
....
ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=174371823
ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=174373071
ad2: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=174750735

Regards

Roger O. Svenning
Bodø - Norway