zfs discuss - Oct 2007 - Areca 1100 SATA Raid Controller in JBOD mode Hangs on zfs root creation

Updated to latest firmware 1.43-70417 ... 

same problem..

WARNING: arcmsr0: dma map got ''no resources'' 

WARNING: arcmsr0: dma allocate fail 

WARNING: arcmsr0: dma allocate fail free scsi hba pkt 

WARNING: arcmsr0: dma map got ''no resources'' 

WARNING: arcmsr0: dma allocate fail 

WARNING: a

The only positive thing is that everytime I try to copy my UFS root (about 5
gig) to a ZFS filesystem, this bug happen.
 
 
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Outside of xen ( it was running in a dom0),the zfs root creation executed
flawlessly.

and it seems that these dma error are caused by xen related isssue :(.

There is an old thread talking about DMA issues on machine with lots of ram
(8gig here.)

Reposting to the Xen mailing list.
 
 
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