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Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  5 Feb 2008 08:20:15 -0500
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> ...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