New HDD, New Board (Biostar A780L). For some time, the SATA HDD was giving a weird timeout and "connection lost" error, but it became increasingly serious. The error is:
The controller is (from pciconf -lvc):
Available BIOS settings for SATA are:
Previous setting was IDE(Default), but I changed it to AHCI after reading a thread re timeout problem at startup only. loader.conf loads AHCI & cuse4bsd. Problem shows up specially under combined heavy load (simultaneously building several ports and specially if those ports are large builds). My memory is also a little insufficient (1G) and I accept this could be a contributing factor.
Code:
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 32262, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 66056, size: 4096
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 82746, size: 8192
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 44091, size: 4096
ahcich0: Timeout on slot 29 port 0
ahcich0: is 00000000 cs 000000ff ss e00000ff rs e00000ff tfd c0 serr 00000000 cmd 0004e017
ahcich0: AHCI reset...
ahcich0: SATA connect time=100us status=00000123
ahcich0: AHCI reset: device found
(ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Command timed out
(ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Retrying command
Code:
ahci0@pci0:0:17:0: class=0x010601 card=0x43911002 chip=0x43911002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]'
class = mass storage
subclass = SATA
cap 01[60] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0
cap 05[50] = MSI supports 4 messages, 64 bit
cap 12[70] = SATA Index-Data Pair
Code:
OnChip SATA Options: Native IDE (Default) / RAID / AHCI / Legacy IDE / IDE->AHCI