> ...then i get i/o errors in venti and plan9 paniced. so this was not > such a good idea i guess... > reformated all venti partitions and tried again several times with > different bios options > (without DMA, tried both bios SATA IDE and SATA RAID mode): > > - after hours of disk activity, sdD0 failed... i tried to read > /dev/sdD0/data and got i/o error instantly and > after reboot worked again.
does it work with a single disk? what is the output of pci? is there any part of the error message that you can capture? - erik