Neal Pollack wrote: > Ed Saipetch wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm experiencing major checksum errors when using a syba silicon >> image 3114 based pci sata controller w/ nonraid firmware. I've >> tested by copying data via sftp and smb. With everything I've >> swapped out, I can't fathom this being a hardware problem. > > I can. But I suppose it could also be in some unknown way a driver > issue. > Even before ZFS, I've had numerous situations where various si3112 > and 3114 chips > would corrupt data on UFS and PCFS, with very simple copy and > checksum > test scripts, doing large bulk transfers. > > Si chips are best used to clean coffee grinders. Go buy a real SATA > controller. > > Neal
I have no problem ponying up money for a better SATA controller. I saw a bunch of blog posts that people were successful using the card so I thought maybe I had a bad card with corrupt firmware nvram. Is it worth trying to trace down the bug? If this type of corruption exists, nobody should be using this card. As a side note, what SATA cards are people having luck with? > >> There have been quite a few blog posts out there with people having >> a similar config and not having any problems. >> >> Here's what I've done so far: >> 1. Changed solaris releases from S10 U3 to NV 75a >> 2. Switched out motherboards and cpus from AMD sempron to a Celeron D >> 3. Switched out memory to use completely different dimms >> 4. Switched out sata drives (2-3 250gb hitachi's and seagates in >> RAIDZ, 3x400GB seagates RAIDZ and 1x250GB hitachi with no raid) >> >> Here's output of a scrub and the status (ignore the date and time, >> I haven't reset it on this new motherboard) and please point me in >> the right direction if I'm barking up the wrong tree. >> >> # zpool scrub tank >> # zpool status >> pool: tank >> state: ONLINE >> status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in >> data >> corruption. Applications may be affected. >> action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise >> restore the >> entire pool from backup. >> see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-8A >> scrub: scrub completed with 140 errors on Sat Sep 15 02:07:35 2007 >> config: >> >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> tank ONLINE 0 0 293 >> c0d1 ONLINE 0 0 293 >> >> errors: 140 data errors, use '-v' for a list >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
