ZFS + replacing failing hard-drive.

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd at kiwi-computer.com> writes:
> I'm reluctant to point fingers at the drives (although this is often a good
> first guess)..  I have access to a few dozen disks from two separate SATA
> batches.  I've noticed that when the identical drives are on the same
> Promise controller, FreeBSD reports DMA timeouts occasionally.

Interesting.  All my DMA timeout issues have indeed been with groups
of identical drives (though different groups from different
manufacturers)

DES
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