i386/89249: HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 (HPT372N) can't write on hard drives

[Julien Nury]

>Number:         89249
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 (HPT372N) can't write on hard drives
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 18 19:10:28 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Julien Nury
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0 Release
>Organization:
WOPR Hosting
>Environment:
FREEBSD 6.0 RELEASE GENERIC i386
>Description:
When attempting to write on drives (in install program for example) connected to an HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 (HPT372N Chipset with last firmware)controller board the following errors appear :

ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=5<ABORTED,ILLEGAL_LENGHT> LBA=63
ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID1 array in DEGRADED mode
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=5<ABORTED,ILLEGAL_LENGHT> LBA=9
ada4: write metadata failed
ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=5<ABORTED,ILLEGAL_LENGHT> LBA=63
ar0: FAILURE - RAID1 array broken

.. and leads to unavailability of the drives.

Read is OK
Same error with no RAID
No error with the same machine and FreeBSD 5.4
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