Sata controller headache

[Rich Wales]

Paul Bliss wrote:

> I'm running 6.1 RELEASE and I've been having very annoying crashes
> that I think are related to my SATA Controller.  I'm using the
> Promise FastTrak TX2300 controller with a Western Digital WD2500KS.

I've been seeing the same kinds of errors with a Promise SATA300 TX4
controller and a pair of Seagate 300GB SATA drives.

Apparently, people have been having similar problems with SATA drives
on Promise controllers for quite some time now, in both FreeBSD and
Linux systems.  Lots of reports and requests for help, but no one so
far has admitted to having a clue as to what is causing it.

> I'm tempted to use atacontrol to change the mode . . . .

Unfortunately, AFAIK, you can't change the mode on a SATA drive using
"atacontrol".

Rich Wales
Palo Alto, CA, USA
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http://www.richw.org