Fwd: frequent timeouts with mvs(4) SATA controller, GELI, and ZFS

[Alexander Motin]

On 11.12.2016 22:09, Alan Somers wrote:
> What's your recommendation?  Is there anyway to make this hardware
> work, or do I need to buy a new SATA card?  That would be a
> disappointment.  The 88SX7042 got generally positive reviews.

I don't know what is the problem in your case.  Last time I tried mine
88SX7042 it was working fine, though I never used it in production to be
completely sure, only for lab testing.  Make sure it is not a
cable/power problems.  Try to move card to different slot (earlier chips
from that line had some odd problems with some slots).  Try to limit
link speed to 1.5Gbps (for many HDDs it still should not be important).

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Alexander Motin