Problems with SATA drive on a Shuttle

Gayn Winters gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com
Wed Oct 5 17:08:33 PDT 2005


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> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:37 PM
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> Subject: Problems with SATA drive on a Shuttle
> 
> 
> Hi. 
> I'm having problems with FBSD 5.4-S on a machine I built. 
> It is a Shuttle XPC with SATA150 drives. 
> 
> This is typical of the messages I get: 
> initiate_write_filepage: already started 
> ad5: WARNING no status, reselecting device 
> ad5: timeout sending command=ca 
> ad5: error issuing WRITE_DMA command 
> 
> I found some hits on the mailing list indicating a possible hardware 
> problem. 
> I have replaced both SATA drives and switched the SATA 
> connections from 
> the secondary socket to the primary socket. 
> (The drive controller is built into the motherboard.) 
> This happens on both drives but the one with the / filesystem is hit 
> harder with this. 
> I have swap partitions on both drives. 
> Nothing has helped. 
> 
> I'm considering installing Suse Linux on the machine to see 
> of it is a 
> software problem with FreeBSD. 
> I've also thought about trying one of the 6.0-BETAs to see if that 
> makes a difference. 
> 
> Any ideas would be welcome. 
> Thanks...

It does matter what controller you have on your m'board.  See man ata.

Also, 6.0 is far better than 5.4 IMHO for this support at least.

-gayn




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