On Tue, 14 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] David Siebörger wrote: > > Have you isolated it to Seagates only? our problematic rackables have > > seagate drives, but I don't have any other mfr drives (maxtor, ibm) to > > test it with. > > No, that's from the Alan Cox posting I mentioned. I'm afraid didn't > have any drives of other brands handy so I gave up on the IDE > interface and went all-SCSI. Here's another report of the problem, > but also with a Seagate disk: > > >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=577071+0+archive/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020224.freebsd-hackers
I'll add it to the doc file. One of our other admins took some time to chit-chat with rackable about their situation. Apparently that and some other weird problems are firmware bugs that Tyan is working on firmware to fix. Not sure if Intel plans to do the same changes once they've been hashed out by Tyan and other ServerWorks users. (Intel now owns ServerWorks I believe...) > >On the SCB2 Intel has a big warning in the manual to not use that IDE > > interface for system disks. I don't see it in the STL2 manual so I guess > > they learned their lesson later on. > > We don't have any SCB2 systems here, but its specs say it has a > Promise controller, rather than the ServerWorks chip on our STL2. It still has the OSB4 IDE interface exposed on the board. The SR1200 chassis uses the ATA RAID connectors though, and the build manuals say to use the RAID channels, yadda yadda. The CDROM uses the secondary channel off the OSB4 I think, I'd have to check the dmesg again. The ATA RAID is UDMA/100 so it's a huge improvement either way :) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
