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

[Alan Somers]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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).
>
> --
> Alexander Motin

Alas, no luck at 1.5Gbps.  And I don't see how the power or data
cables could be responsible, because the card was working just fine
with a different OS.  But thanks for all your efforts anyway.

-Alan