On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:24:40PM +0100, Jonas Lund wrote: > (NOTICE: i'm more of a lowlevel guy close to hardware guy not knowing > much of freebsd internals) > > The fact that FreeBSD is NOT using HPET for timing might be the answer > to the "mystery". The HPET hardware might be/get enabled but not > handled and firing tons of unexpected interrupts (as you said.. linux > produces tons of data into the log, what's the actual content of those > logs?). > > These interrupts in turn might disturb the cd drive in some fashion? > > Can you bring up some interrupt statistics in freebsd? like a counter > of the number of events?
First and foremost, thanks for chiming in, Jonas. The more eyes on this matter the merrier. vmstat -i can provide interrupt rate and count in FreeBSD, e.g.: interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 227 0 irq6: fdc0 10 0 irq17: uhci1++ 4479741 10 cpu0: timer 814684046 2000 irq256: em0 17219212 42 cpu1: timer 814683722 2000 Total 1651066958 4053 > 2008/11/19 Jan Sebosik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [snip] > >> > >> Okay now I understand. Thank you for taking the time to explain! :-) > >> > >> And when you disable HPET in the BIOS, what happens? > >> > >>> Maybe I should try -CURRENT sometimes with your proposed ata patches (or > >>> are they merged in right now?). > >> > >> Sure, you're free to try CURRENT. The ATA code on CURRENT was > >> modularised, and also a very large patch applied; I can't promise it > >> fixes your CD/DVD drive issues though. > >> > >> I had problems getting CURRENT to see my PCI SATA Promise controller (it > >> wasn't appearing in pciconf -lv, nor dmesg), but I had no problems with > >> CURRENT seeing my ICH7 controller. I also had other problems with > >> CURRENT which caused me to go back to RELENG_7. CURRENT is undergoing > >> lots of changes right now, so I recommend subscribing to -current if you > >> plan on running it. > >> > >> I personally haven't written any ATA patches, except for extending > >> atacontrol to support per-disk write cache enable/disable. I think > >> you might be confusing me with Andrey V. Elsukov, who *has* written > >> lots of ATA stuff. > > > > > > Now happens almost nothing (I don`t understand), except the cd/acd > > problems (READ_BIG errors), but I don`t understand why it is happening.. > > maybe guys from Intel optimized this board too much for twista OS :). > > > > Wishing all the best > > -- > > Jan Sebosik, Slovakia > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
