ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA?

[Mike Jakubik]

Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> I upgraded to RELENG_6, changed all HW (whole servers and changed 
> Seagate HHDs to Samsung so every piece of HW is different from time of 
> my first post), but after one week I got the same error and system 
> reboot today:
> Aug 19 15:11:20 track ntpd[456]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
> Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: ad6: FAILURE - device detached
> Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: subdisk6: detached
> Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: ad6: detached
> Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad6 
> disconnected.
> Aug 19 15:15:47 track kernel: 
> g_vfs_done():mirror/gm0s2d[READ(offset=1169260544, leng
> th=131072)]error = 6
> Aug 19 15:22:34 track syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> From my point of view - this is not related to 1 piece of HW, but 
> general problem of ICH7 chipset or (s)ATA driver in FreeBSD 6.x. As 
> other poster has different chipsets (ICH6 and nVidia), it seems more 
> FreeBSD ATA driver related. (7 different machines was tried)
>

Just a "me too", i have the same problems with ICH7 and disks 
mysteriously disconnecting.

Aug 14 16:54:47 mx1 kernel: ad4: FAILURE - device detached
Aug 14 16:54:47 mx1 kernel: ad4: detaGEOM_MIRROR:ched Device gm: 
provider ad4 disconnected.

I think there definitely is a problem with the chipset/driver.