Re: SiI3112 Controller Question
Richard P. Koett wrote: Thanks Alex. I did check Google before posting but nothing I read was very recent. I was curious if things had improved since newer firmware and newer versions of FreeBSD had come along. I'll go with the HPT controller. Everything I read on the mailing lists said that the controller itself was complete garbage and that no changes in FreeBSD could help that. I'm sure that two of the first three posts I found with google said that to :-( I don't know your Highpoint controller at all but I can't imagine it could be anything but better, assuming it's recognised. Good luck, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SiI3112 Controller Question
Hello All: I'm setting up a small fileserver at home running 5.4-RELEASE. I'm booting from a small IDE hard drive and have installed a SiI3112 controller and a pair of SATA drives for data storage. Before starting I flashed the controller with latest firmware (4.2.77) and performed a low-level format and burn-in test on both SATA drives (Maxtor 7L300S0's) using Maxtor's PowerMAX 4.22 diagnostic utilities. The burn-in tests ran two full passes (approx. 8 hours) on each drive without errors so I am reasonably sure the drives are working correctly. I then did the following: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 bsdlabel -w /dev/ar0 newfs -O2 -U -b32768 -f4096 -g8388608 -h16 -ospace /dev/ar0a So far so good, but when I do this: mount /dev/ar0a /data I get this: ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=24016 Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. 2) Would upgrading to something newer than 5.4-RELEASE help with this issue? DMESG below... TIA, RPK. Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (266.62-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX real memory = 268423168 (255 MB) avail memory = 253018112 (241 MB) npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: IBM CDTPWSNZ on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xfd08-0xfd0b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge mem 0xe000-0xefff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller port 0xfff0-0x,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller at device 7.2 on pci0 uhci0: 0x20 bytes of rid 0x20 res 4 failed. uhci0: Could not map ports device_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6 pci0: bridge at device 7.3 (no driver attached) atapci1: SiI 3112 SATA150 controller port 0x74f0-0x74ff,0x74c4-0x74c7,0x74d8-0x74df,0x74c0-0x74c3,0x74d0-0x74d7 mem 0xf5effe00-0xf5ef irq 15 at device 16.0 on pci0 ata2: channel #0 on atapci1 ata3: channel #1 on atapci1 xl0: 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL port 0x7c00-0x7c7f mem 0xf5effd80-0xf5effdff irq 11 at device 18.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on xl0 ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:03:c4:4e:56 atapci2: HighPoint HPT372 UDMA133 controller port 0x7800-0x78ff,0x74cc-0x74cf,0x74e8-0x74ef,0x74c8-0x74cb,0x74e0-0x74e7 irq 9 at device 20.0 on pci0 ata4: channel #0 on atapci2 ata5: channel #1 on atapci2 fdc0: floppy drive controller port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x778-0x77f,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model MouseMan+, device ID 0 sio0: 16550A-compatible COM port port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A orm0: ISA Option ROMs at iomem 0xcc800-0xccfff,0xc8000-0xcc7ff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300 sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 Timecounter TSC frequency 266615387 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 6149MB Maxtor 86480D6/NAVXAA21 [13328/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad4: 286188MB Maxtor 7L300S0/BACE1G20 [581463/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 286188MB Maxtor 7L300S0/BACE1G20 [581463/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150 ar0: 286186MB ATA RAID1 array [36483/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master
Re: SiI3112 Controller Question
Richard P. Koett wrote: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. A simple google for sil3112 freebsd will return you plenty of responses which will provide an answer to your question - which is, no they are not any good. I'll leave you with google to fill in the details. Based on nothing more than reading mailing lists, highpoint controllers have a much better reputation. No doubt google could be your friend on that issue as well. Sorry for the bad news, --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SiI3112 Controller Question
At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA controller. (disclaimer: I am only commenting on their SATA controllers) I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other alternatives. I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but there are probably a number of other good options. 2) Would upgrading to something newer than 5.4-RELEASE help with this issue? It will probably help. That doesn't mean you will have a reliable controller, it just means that 6.x includes more work-arounds for the myriad bugs in these super- cheap controllers. Some of these work-arounds result in performance penalties. Just my opinion, of course... YMMV. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SiI3112 Controller Question
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Richard P. Koett wrote: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. A simple google for sil3112 freebsd will return you plenty of responses which will provide an answer to your question - which is, no they are not any good. I'll leave you with google to fill in the details. Thanks Alex. I did check Google before posting but nothing I read was very recent. I was curious if things had improved since newer firmware and newer versions of FreeBSD had come along. I'll go with the HPT controller. RPK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SiI3112 Controller Question
Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA controller. (disclaimer: I am only commenting on their SATA controllers) I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other alternatives. I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but there are probably a number of other good options. Well, the HPT controller is not what I'd call *real* RAID either but it's lying around so I'll give it a try. 2) Would upgrading to something newer than 5.4-RELEASE help with this issue? It will probably help. That doesn't mean you will have a reliable controller, it just means that 6.x includes more work-arounds for the myriad bugs in these super- cheap controllers. Some of these work-arounds result in performance penalties. Just my opinion, of course... YMMV. Thanks. Your comments are appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SiI3112 Controller Question
On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Richard P. Koett wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: Some quick questions: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? They suck. They are horrible. They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after you add in all the aggravation they provide. Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA controller. (disclaimer: I am only commenting on their SATA controllers) I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other alternatives. I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but there are probably a number of other good options. Well, the HPT controller is not what I'd call *real* RAID either but it's lying around so I'll give it a try. If you want a somewhat reasonably priced real raid controller, the LSI MegaRaid SATA-4 150 (or some name like that) is around $225 or so and works pretty well Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
