Promise SATA controller / Maxtor drive problems

[Øyvind Skaar]

>> The drive in question is a Maxtor 6B200M0.

> These were Maxtor 6Y080M0 and 6Y160MO drives. Running under onboard SATA 
> or Highpoint Rocket Raid cards
<snip>
> The Maxtor drives were problematic for us from the start, and not even 
> heavy enough to make good door stops.

So your no big Maxtor fan then? :)
Do you think the drives had compatibility problems with the 
controller(s)? Or maybe a driver issue? Kind of hard to believe that so 
many drives are just faulty..

Btw, I used this drive with 5.4 release (It think) on another 
controller, but It was one of those cheap Sil controllers, and I got the 
usual* problems.


Anyone know what these checks refer to?
> ad4:  Maxtor 6B200M0 BANC1B70
> ad4:  398297088 sectors [395136C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/intrupts 1 depth queue
> ad4:  Promise check1 failed
> ad4:  Adaptec check1 failed
> ad4:  LSI (v3) check1 failed
> ad4:  LSI (v2) check1 failed
> ad4:  FreeBSD check1 failed
> GEOM: new disk ad4


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*Failing under heavy load, DMA write problems etc..

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