The SATA seems better, but is still not working. I tried the Oct 5 snapshot, doing a clean install. I CVSup'd and did
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
reboot to single user
mount -a
swapon -a
mergemaster -p
make installworld
System has the same DMA write problems. In this recent case it was installing termcap. I tried the Oct 1 snapshot and it was the same, it errored in installworld installing tar.
The SATA is stabler as I can buildworld, but not stable enough to handle the installworld copies.
Here is what I copied from the console after it went into the debugger: spec_getpages I/O Read failure(error=5) vm_fault: pager read error panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started
Let me know if you want more information. I will have to reinstall to get a dmesg, if you want a new one.
-Derek
At 04:09 PM 9/30/2003 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:
Great news to hear Søren.
Do you know when a snapshot with the fix will be available? Since I cannot complete a buildworld using the SATA drive without the fix.
Thanks for the fix.
-Derek
At 10:06 PM 9/30/2003 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip.
Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the WD Raptor fx is not a real SATA device but just a PATA device with a build in PATA->SATA converter chip) it works just fine no matter what I try.
If however I use an older PATA drive and a certain PATA->SATA "dongle" (in this case 1 out of 4 samples) I can reproduce the problem pretty easily.
This suggests to me that we are looking at a timing problem of sorts the question is where.
I'll work on the problem as time permits...
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