Re: Promise SATA 300 TX4 strangeness

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:13:45 -0800 

I trawled the net yesterday i found these old threads on freebsd:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-March/023598.html
https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-hackers/2007/11/1/377849
seems to be an old bug in the hardware? I would like to know whether I should hang on to the card or purchase something affordable but more reliable. 

regards

On Nov 4, 2008, at 23:11, Anathae Townsend wrote:
I have one of these cards working in my file server system. Something I noticed is that while I had four drives hooked up to it, I ran into system freezes as well. The system console had some time out errors however. It 
is working well with just two 500 GB drives hooked up to it.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
Joseph A Borg
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:16 AM
To: Duncan Patton a Campbell
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Promise SATA 300 TX4 strangeness

I'm having the same problem. At first i thought it was a failed pci
card, then the old bios. Now with a replacement card and updated bios,
I tried to copy a hefty multi-Gb gzip file from an other disk to drive
on the sata card and the machine is still hanging, hard: I have to
switch it off.

I just placed an order for 4.4. If this is resolved there I'll wait
for it, but in the meantime any pointers would be appreciated.

dmesg

OpenBSD 4.3 (netatalk) #0: Sun May 18 21:32:08 CEST 2008
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/netatalk
cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class)
2.54 GHz
cpu0:
FPU
,V86
,DE
,PSE
,TSC
,MSR
,PAE
,MCE
,CX8
,APIC
,SEP
,MTRR
,PGE
,MCA
,CMOV
,PAT
,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-
CPL,TM2,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR
real mem  = 2146267136 (2046MB)
avail mem = 2067304448 (1971MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 05/28/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xfcd70 (22 entries)
bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "P3.20" date 05/28/2007 
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
apm0: battery life expectancy 0%
apm0: AC off, battery charge unknown, estimated 0:00 hours
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf4a80/192 (10 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801EB/ER LPC"
rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf800 0xcf800/0x5000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82865G Host" rev 0x02
agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xf8000000, size 0x4000000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82865G AGP" rev 0x02
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200" rev 0xa1
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq
10
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 3 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq 5 
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: irq
10
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB2" rev 0x02:
irq 11
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xc2
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
pciide0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Promise PDC40718" rev 0x02: DMA
wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK1652GSX>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors
wd0(pciide0:1:0): using BIOS timings, Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd1 at pciide0 channel 3 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK1652GSX>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors
wd1(pciide0:3:0): using BIOS timings, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide0: using irq 5 for native-PCI interrupt
re0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Realtek 8169" rev 0x10: RTL8169S
(0x0400), irq 11, address 00:0e:2e:c2:e1:07
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 0
rl0 at pci2 dev 5 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11,
address 00:13:8f:ca:39:3d
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x02:
24-bit timer at 3579545Hz
pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER IDE" rev 0x02:
DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
compatibility
pciide1: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <PIONEER, DVD-RW DVR-106D, 1.07> SCSI0
5/cdrom removable
wd2 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 1: <ST3400620A>
wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 381554MB, 781422768 sectors
cd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd2(pciide1:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
pciide2 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801EB SATA" rev 0x02:
DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to
native-PCI
pciide2: using irq 5 for native-PCI interrupt
wd3 at pciide2 channel 0 drive 0: <Hitachi HDS721616PLA380>
wd3: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors
wd3(pciide2:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
wd4 at pciide2 channel 1 drive 0: <Maxtor 6L250M0>
wd4: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 239372MB, 490234752 sectors
wd4(pciide2:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER SMBus" rev 0x02:
irq 10
iic0 at ichiic0
spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 1GB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC3200CL3.0
spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x52: 1GB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC3200CL3.0
auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 "Intel 82801EB/ER AC97" rev 0x02:
irq 10, ICH5 AC97
ac97: codec id 0x434d4983 (C-Media Electronics CMI9761A+)
audio0 at auich0
usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at ichpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
wbsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: W83627EHF rev 0x63
lm1 at wbsio0 port 0x290/8: W83627EHF
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
biomask ff6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
umass0 at uhub0 port 8 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic Mass
Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic, USB SD Reader, 1.00> SCSI0 0/
direct removable
sd0: drive offline
sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 1: <Generic, USB CF Reader, 1.01> SCSI0 0/
direct removable
sd1: drive offline
sd2 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 2: <Generic, USB SM Reader, 1.02> SCSI0 0/
direct removable
sd2: drive offline
sd3 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 3: <Generic, USB MS Reader, 1.03> SCSI0 0/
direct removable
sd3: drive offline
softraid0 at root
root on wd4a swap on wd4b dump on wd4b



On Aug 30, 2008, at 04:55, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:


Howdy List?

I have a Promise SATA 300 TX4 which I've tested
with 3 different mobos using 4.3 and 4.4.  Two
of the mobos, all of which operate with obsd cleanly
when using on-board disk io, fail to finish booting,
locking tight at the

mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support

line when booting the cd and at the

softraid0 at root

line when booting from a SATA disk attached to the TX4.

AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (1808.33-MHz 686-class CPU)
AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 128KB L2
cache) 1.61 GHz

On an

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3.02 GHz
board (Gigabyte), however, I have no problems booting and running with 
the Promise in, either from CD or from disk attached to the Promise.

Any ideas as to what is happening would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dhu

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