> The disks are S-ATA? How is the system's S-ATA > controller > configured? Legacy IDE mode? Or AHCI?
The disks are S-ATA, indeed. I will check the configuration, didn't pay any attention to it, to be honest. However, since I haven't changed anything after flashing the latest BIOS (Phoenix), it should be still in the factory default setting -- if this information is of any help... Anyway, I will post the configuration. > Run "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v" as root; this produces > a > list of pci devices installed in your machine. > "prtconf -Dv" lists the drivers that are in use. Well, I know... But I'm not even getting there... The machine crashes during the boot procedure. However, here's the output of 'lspci' under Linux (still using the LiveCD, still no problem): 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 31) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 2 (rev 31) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 3 (rev 31) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000X Chipset PCI Express x16 Port 4-7 (rev 31) 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 5 (rev 31) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 6 (rev 31) 00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 7 (rev 31) 00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset DMA Engine (rev 31) 00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev 31) 00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev 31) 00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FSB Registers (rev 31) 00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev 31) 00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset Reserved Registers (rev 31) 00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers (rev 31) 00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5000 Series Chipset FBD Registers (rev 31) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB High Definition Audio Controller (rev 09) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 09) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 09) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #3 (rev 09) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset UHCI USB Controller #4 (rev 09) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset EHCI USB2 Controller (rev 09) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 09) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller (rev 09) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset SATA IDE Controller (rev 09) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB/3100 Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01) 01:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev 01) 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01) 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express Downstream Port E3 (rev 01) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) 04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation D9M-20 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1) 0c:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) > That's why I asked for the hardware info, and the > drivers that are in use... > > E.g. the "ahci" s-ata driver had such a 64-bit DMA > issue when > used with the ATI SB750 chipset (bug 6764179). > > > I think you could test the 64-bit dma theory by > editing > the grub boot commands from the grub boot menu, and > prepend a grub "uppermem 2500000" command before > the boot commands. That should limit the kernel's > memory use to physical addresses < 2.5GB so that all > active system memory can be reached with 32-bit dma > addresses. Ok, will do that right now. Will post results soon. Thanks, Manfred -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
