Reset Problem with SATA Port Multiplier

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I've heard, that only SiI3132 (2 port controller) works really well with
>> > port multipliers
>> > But we should wait answer from Alexander Motin (mav@) to be sure :)
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>> I've heard the theory that you are better off matching a Silicon Image
>> port multiplier with a Silicon Image controller (e.g. 3132 or 3124),
>> but with no data to back it up.  For me, the Sil3726 pm seems to work as
>> well with JMB363 (achi(4)) controller as with Sil3132 (siis(4)).
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> I can confirm I  have this SAME exact problem on -HEAD ... both of my
> mirrored ZFS disks disappear seemingly at random during a build world....
> there is a dmesg for the motherboard in question, in a different post... I
> also have pciconf output... I hope there is a patch for this problem...
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forgot to paste the link :)
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-July/043239.html



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Sam Fourman Jr.