6.2-STABLE Hard Freeze while using RAID1 on Adaptec 1210SA

[Alexander Shikoff]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:11:38AM +0200, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use two SATA II disks over an Adaptec 1210SA PCI SATA
> Controller (based on SiI 3112 SATA150 chip).
> 
> While trying to use the disks I get shortly the following message and the
> system is hard freezing soon after that.
> 
> May 14 15:47:32 noname kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry
> left) LBA=238231007
> 
> If I move the HDD's in a computer with VIA SATA150 on board or nVIDIA
> SATA150 the RAID system is working without problems with the same version
> of FreeBSD.
> 
> Are there any known problems with this Adaptec controller or is the
> combination controller SATA150 and HDD SATA300 not well supported?
> Is there a way to fix this?
> 
> The system is installed on a 3rd disk (IDE).

Hello,

I had similar problems with 1210SA controller. As I know this
controller is a little defective and it is not supported correctly by FreeBSD.
There were a lot of discussions about issues with Adaptec 1210SA and SiI 3112-
based controllers, but all of these discussions didn't give a solution. 
In other words I don't know how to solve this problem.

I guess only the way is to throw it out of the window :(

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