Hi,
I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 (I know, I should upgrade), and I just bought an
add-on pci SATA controller for 2 extra SATA disks.
However, a lot of disk activity on the drives will often cause the
machine to crash and spontaneously reboot. I checked out which chipset
was on the card with pciconf -lv and I found it was the Sil 3512.
Googling showed me that I'm not the only one with problems using this card.
Does anybody have experience with a (preferably not too expensive)
2-port SATA expansion card which does not have any issues running under
FreeBSD 6.3/7.0?
[pciconf -lv output]
atapci0@pci0:10:0: class=0x018000 card=0x35121095 chip=0x35121095
rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)'
device = 'Sil 3512 SATALink/SATARaid Controller'
class = mass storage
[/var/log/messages before the crash]
Aug 5 11:16:14 piglet kernel:
g_vfs_done():mirror/gm1s1e[WRITE(offset=111376236544,
length=16384)]error = 6
Aug 5 11:16:17 piglet last message repeated 9 times
Regards,
Sebastiaan
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:> However, a lot of disk activity on the drives will often cause the > machine to crash and spontaneously reboot. I checked out which chipset > was on the card with pciconf -lv and I found it was the Sil 3512. > Googling showed me that I'm not the only one with problems using this > card.Yes, most of the Silicon Image ICs I've read about have odd driver problems or general issues (even under Windows). The system rebooting is an odd one; you sure your PSU can handle two disks?> Does anybody have experience with a (preferably not too expensive) > 2-port SATA expansion card which does not have any issues running under > FreeBSD 6.3/7.0?Promise makes some consumer-priced cards which work very well under FreeBSD (sos@ has full documentation on their cards). Their RAID controllers (the consumer-level ones) **do not** require that you use RAID; they support JBOD, and the disks will show up under FreeBSD as ad(4) devices. (If you choose to use the RAID, you'll still see the ad(4) disks, but you'll also see an ar(4) device too. This has the added advantage of you being able to monitor SMART stats on the disks themselves directly, etc...> [pciconf -lv output] > atapci0@pci0:10:0: class=0x018000 card=0x35121095 chip=0x35121095 > rev=0x01 > hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)' > device = 'Sil 3512 SATALink/SATARaid Controller' > class = mass storage > > [/var/log/messages before the crash] > Aug 5 11:16:14 piglet kernel: > g_vfs_done():mirror/gm1s1e[WRITE(offset=111376236544, length=16384)] error = 6 > Aug 5 11:16:17 piglet last message repeated 9 timesAre you sure this is being caused by the controller? Have you checked SMART statistics on both disks? Assuming error == errno, errno 6 is "Device not configured". There's been recent discussion of such messages being caused by the use of gmirror or gjournal, when the mirror/journal is improperly set up. (In one users' case, he was receiving similar errors, as well as the filesystem failing during fsck. Turns out he incorrectly configured journalling, which nuked the last ~1MB of his UFS filesystem.) I'm not saying this is the reason for the messages you see, but it's something to keep in mind. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:> [/var/log/messages before the crash] > Aug 5 11:16:14 piglet kernel: > g_vfs_done():mirror/gm1s1e[WRITE(offset=111376236544, > length=16384)]error = 6 > Aug 5 11:16:17 piglet last message repeated 9 timesCan you show which messages where before these? -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
I heartily recommend 3ware controllers for FreeBSD 6/7, even if you only need 2 ports. - Andrew
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:28:40PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:> Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 (I know, I should upgrade), and I just bought an > add-on pci SATA controller for 2 extra SATA disks. > > However, a lot of disk activity on the drives will often cause the > machine to crash and spontaneously reboot. I checked out which chipset > was on the card with pciconf -lv and I found it was the Sil 3512. > Googling showed me that I'm not the only one with problems using this card.I can personally affirm that similar problems existed for me with a SiI 3114 under 7.0-STABLE, but have since moved the card into a Linux machine. Cheers, Jonathan.
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