SATA controller - Adaptec 1210SA on 6.0/6.1RC

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

thisis the oemed highpoint if I'm not mistaken.  It's a good controller.

WD drives on IDE raid are a problem - WD has a blurb on this on
their website - they sell special raid-ready ide drives for this purpose.
the programming in their standard drives isn't compatible with raid.
(they say)

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Łukasz
>Bromirski
>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:38 AM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: SATA controller - Adaptec 1210SA on 6.0/6.1RC
>
>
>Hi list,
>
>I'm having problems with the following setup:
>
>Abit KT7A-RAID
>Adaptec 1210SA in 3rd slot and 2xWestern Digitial 200GB drives
>Intel 10/100/1000 in 2nd slot
>AGP card (some generic GeForce)
>Samsung 80GB connected to first IDE controller
>CD-ROM connected to second IDE controller
>
>In essence, any operation that touches the drives connected to the
>1210SA controller hang machine in place (after about 3 or 4 seconds),
>and only message I was able to see before it was 'ata2 request
>DISCONNECT' (disks are visible as ad4 and ad6).
>
>Of course any disk operations involving the IDE drive are OK, I tested
>some file transfers and they were able to keep 20MB/s rate without
>a problem.
>
>I consulted the BIOS settings page of the motherboard manual and
>set up everything so IRQs would not collide - so that's why NIC and
>the Adaptec PCI card are on 2nd and 3rd slot (I have to use USB on
>this PC and don't have any PCI graphics card, so essentialy, there is
>no other option). 'vmstat' shows every device on it's own interrupt.
>Hangs happen with and without ACPI loaded during boot.
>
>I saw some discussions about how crappy Si3112 and low-end Adaptec
>controllers are, but is there any way to have it running stable on
>6.0/6.1RC machine?
>
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>  understand the problem." -- Woody Allen   |
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