problems with an SATA drive on nVidia3 controller

[Søren Schmidt]

Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We have an amd64 machine with an nVidia3 SATA controller on motherboard.
> 
> The drive just came from the manufacturer and the self-tests initiated
> via smartctl show no problems:
> 
> atapci1: <nVidia nForce3 Pro SATA150 controller> port 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xc800-0xc803,0xc400-0xc407,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc0f,0xb800-0xb87f irq 22 at device 10.0 
> on pci0
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
> ad6: 238475MB <WDC WD2500SD-01KCC0 08.02D08> at ata3-master SATA150
> 
> 
> Yet even newfs-ing it leads to DMA errors and the drive is unusable:
> 
> % newfs -f 8192 -b 65536 /dev/ad6
> /dev/ad6: 238475.2MB (488397168 sectors) block size 65536, fragment size 8192
>         using 81 cylinder groups of 2969.06MB, 47505 blks, 95232 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  256, 6080896, 12161536, 18242176, 24322816, 30403456, 36484096, 42564736,
>  48645376, 54726016, 60806656, 66887296, 72967936, 79048576, 85129216,
>  91209856, 97290496, 103371136, 109451776, 115532416, 121613056, 127693696,
>  133774336, 139854976, 145935616, 152016256, 158096896, 164177536, 170258176,
>  176338816, 182419456, 188500096, 194580736, 200661376, 206742016, 212822656,
>  218903296, 224983936, 231064576, 237145216, 243225856, 249306496, 255387136,
>  261467776, 267548416,newfs: wtfs: 262144 bytes at sector 273629056: Input/output error
> 
> % atacontrol reinit ata3
> Master:  ad6 <WDC WD2500SD-01KCC0/08.02D08> Serial ATA v1.0
> Slave:       no device present
> 
> % newfs -f 8192 -b 65536 /dev/ad6
> /dev/ad6: 238475.2MB (488397168 sectors) block size 65536, fragment size 8192
>         using 81 cylinder groups of 2969.06MB, 47505 blks, 95232 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  256, 6080896, 12161536, 18242176, 24322816, 30403456, 36484096, 42564736,
>  48645376, 54726016, 60806656, 66887296, 72967936, 79048576, 85129216,
>  91209856, 97290496, 103371136, 109451776, 115532416, 121613056, 127693696,
>  133774336, 139854976, 145935616, 152016256, 158096896, 164177536, 170258176,
>  176338816, 182419456, 188500096, 194580736, 200661376, 206742016, 212822656,
>  218903296, 224983936, 231064576, 237145216, 243225856, 249306496, 255387136,
>  261467776, 267548416,newfs: wtfs: 262144 bytes at sector 273629056: Input/output error
> 
> After each such attempt, the kernel complains loudly:
> [...]
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=249306496
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=261467776
> ad6: WARNING - WRITE_DMA48 UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=273629312
> ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=10<NID_NOT_FOUND> LBA=273629312
> 
> Is this controller working for others? We connected the disk to it in
> preference to the Silicon Image connectors, which are also present
> on-board, because SI has poor reputation :-(
> 
> Is this controller supposed to work? Thanks!

What freebsd version are we talking about here ? (dmesg would have been 
nice).
Have you tried another cable ?

-Søren