[nycbug-talk] Issue with freebsd 6.2 and disk drives

[Matt Juszczak]

> I don't have access to the console of the box.  They are switching to a
> different type of SATA controller.  I'm hoping this will fix the problem.
> If not, can this be done from loader.conf?
>
> Also, are these warning messages causing data corruption/loss at all, or
> are they just indicative of retries that are effectively inefficient?  In
> other words, if swapping to a new controller has a positive outcome (no
> more error messages), should I force an OS reload anyway?
>
> -Matt

It seems they have now replaced the card with a 3ware SATA card.  Do these 
have a bit better compatibility with FreeBSD 6.2?

twed0: <Unit 0, JBOD, Normal> on twe0
twed0: 76319MB (156301488 sectors)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/twed0s1a