Re: ICH7 Sata Issues - 6.1-Stable

Chronos wrote:
After replacing Kelsey Cummings with a small shell script on Tuesday 22
Aug 2006 05:24, the following appeared on stdout:

Originally posted to freebsd-questions but reposting here.
...and now being discussed in great depth on -stable. It's not just
ICH7 chipsets, either.
Well that's good-ish news. Better to have company than to be alone.

Meh. Misery loves company <bg>

Try moving anything that shares the SATA controller's IRQ/PCI INT to
another slot for now. It's not a cure, it just increases the relaxation
time between events of AWOL drives. Luckily, gmirror rebuilds the
provider automatically. You (don't) really want to see what happens to
an ar volume...

I guess that's why I've always avoided OEM systems before. Everything
is integrated and the only PCI slot has a SB-Live in it since FreeBSD
doesn't support the ICH Audio stuff when it's wired up in HD mode. (At
least, last time I checked.) And even though the second sata bus is
physically present, there aren't any connectors soldered to the MB. I
don't think the Dell BIOS will allow me to move IRQs around but I'll check.

-K
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