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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed,  6 Feb 2008 06:03:13 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work
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> i choose that blocksize because the I/O erros printed by venti
> while i first tried to copy arenas showed that blocksize.
>
> i conclude for now that doing paralel io on both drives results
> in I/O errors in short time. reading/writing a single drive, the
> system hangs/freezes after many hours without a trace.
>

eh.  sorry for the stupid suggestion.  have you tried reducing the
size of the reads?  does it still hang with a 32k blocksize?  perhaps
plan 9 is too fast. :-).

- erik