Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

[Danny Howard]

Michael R. Wayne wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:36:05PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>>What 'other vendor' have you found that makes RELIABLE SATA disks in the 
>>high capacity (e.g. 200-300gb) arena?
>>
>
>WD now makes a SATA RAID line.  HIGHLY recommended by 3ware.
>
I read with some alarm about trouble with SuperMicro servers and ATA, 
because that is my new box.  I'll chime in a data point saying that I 
have not seen any errors with the SuperMicro 1U and my 250G Western 
Digital SATA drives:

atapci0: <SiI 3112 SATA150 controller> port 
0x4000-0x400f,0x4020-0x4023,0x4028-0x402f,0x4024-0x4027,0x4030-0x4037 
mem 0xfc300000-0xfc3001ff irq 26 at device 2.0 on pci3
ata2: channel #0 on atapci0
ata3: channel #1 on atapci0
atapci1: <SiI 3112 SATA150 controller> port 
0x4010-0x401f,0x4038-0x403b,0x4040-0x4047,0x403c-0x403f,0x4048-0x404f 
mem 0xfc300400-0xfc3005ff irq 27 at device 3.0 on pci3
ata4: channel #0 on atapci1
ata5: channel #1 on atapci1
atapci2: <Intel ICH3 UDMA100 controller> port 
0x2060-0x206f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci2
ata1: channel #1 on atapci2
acd0: CDROM <CD-224E/1.9A> at ata1-master UDMA33
ad4: 238475MB <WDC WD2500SD-01KCB0/08.02D08> [484521/16/63] at 
ata2-master SATA150
ad6: 238475MB <WDC WD2500SD-01KCB0/08.02D08> [484521/16/63] at 
ata3-master SATA150

The vendor (ASA) were initially reluctant to send me this box because 
they were keen to issues with FreeBSD's SATA chipset compatability, but 
I did some research and convinced them not to fret.

I am saving money and probably some hassle by replacing 3ware with 
gmirror.  My cheat sheet is posted at 
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ .

Thanks,
-danny