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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> 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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