Friday, March 13, 2009

FreeBSD 7 and the SiI 3114 SATA150 controller

Well, it turns out that the issue with my ZFS box was only that my SiI 3114 SATA card hard outdated firmware. FreeBSD 7 with ZFS has been running solid for a few days now while under moderate load from Samba.

I discoved the solution after having the exact same types of problems with my setup and a Debian software Raid-6 configuration. After a bit of googling for "SiI 3114 debian timeout" I found my answer. A firmware update and a FreeBSD reinstall later, everything was peachy.

I'll pick up where I left off with the media server part of the project soon.

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