MCP55 SATA data corruption in FreeBSD 7

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 2 07:28:27 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:17:48AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Daniel Eriksson wrote:
>>> I have two motherboards with MCP55. They work well and I didn't
>>> see any data corruption.
>>
>> Do you have SATA-150 or SATA-300 drives connected to the motherboards?
>
> All drives are SATA-300:
> FreeBSD 6.2:
> 1x WDC WD3200YS-01PGB0/21.00M21
> FreeBSD 8.0:
> 5x WDC WD5001ABYS-01YNA0/59.01D01
> 1x WDC WD1200JS-00MHB0/02.01C03

Which makes me wonder if there's multiple revisions of the MCP55, or, if
Samsung drives simply don't behave properly with that chipset (this has
my vote).

Can the OP get some non-Samsung disks for testing?

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