Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-11-09 Thread Anselm Strauss
I opened a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152075

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.netwrote:

 On Wednesday 13 October 2010 23:22:59 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
  Can you add this device to the quirk entries in:
 
  sys/dev/usb/controller/ehci.c

 ehci_pci.c actually.

 --HPS
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-13 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Saturday 09 October 2010 11:06:19 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 10/07/10 22:59, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
  Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes:
  On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
  On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote:
  On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
  On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
  Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...
  
  On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
  Hi
  
  I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
  chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
  observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250
  GB partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck
  reports unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and
  direct it to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but
  having read only a small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two
  different disks and two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the
  disks are okay since I tried them on other hardware.
  
  As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
  timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding.
  I have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I
  track this down?
  
  Anselm
  
  If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls
  under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.
  
  --HPS
  
  Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
  When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
  seem gone.
  
  Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did
  abort:
  
  ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8
  
  
  Thanks,
  Anselm
  
  Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add
  this quirk.
  
  --HPS
  
  Not sure what a PCI vendor ID is and how to determine it. It's a ALIX
  2d2 from http://pcengines.ch/alix.
  
  pciconf(8) will tell you.  Try sending pciconf -l output.
 
 - pciconf -lv
 hos...@pci0:0:1:0:class=0x06 card=0x20801022 chip=0x20801022
 rev=0x33 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
 device = 'Conrad Kostecki'
 class  = bridge
 subclass   = HOST-PCI
 no...@pci0:0:1:2: class=0x101000 card=0x20821022 chip=0x20821022
 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
 device = 'Geode GX3 AES Crypto Driver (GX3)'
 class  = encrypt/decrypt
 v...@pci0:0:9:0:  class=0x02 card=0x01061106 chip=0x30531106 rev=0x96
 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'VIA Technologies, Inc.'
 device = 'Rhine III Management Adapter (VT6105M)'
 class  = network
 subclass   = ethernet
 v...@pci0:0:11:0: class=0x02 card=0x01061106 chip=0x30531106 rev=0x96
 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'VIA Technologies, Inc.'
 device = 'Rhine III Management Adapter (VT6105M)'
 class  = network
 subclass   = ethernet
 a...@pci0:0:12:0: class=0x02 card=0x1600185f chip=0x001b168c
 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
 device = 'AR5006 family 802.11abg Wireless NIC'
 class  = network
 subclass   = ethernet
 is...@pci0:0:15:0:class=0x060100 card=0x20901022 chip=0x20901022
 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
 device = 'CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA'
 class  = bridge
 subclass   = PCI-ISA
 atap...@pci0:0:15:2:  class=0x010180 card=0x209a1022 chip=0x209a1022
 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
 device = 'CS5536 IDE Controller (CS5536)'
 class  = mass storage
 subclass   = ATA
 oh...@pci0:0:15:4:class=0x0c0310 card=0x20941022 chip=0x20941022
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
 device = 'CS5536 OHCI USB Host Controller (CS5536)'
 class  = serial bus
 subclass   = USB
 eh...@pci0:0:15:5:class=0x0c0320 card=0x20951022 chip=0x20951022
 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
 vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
 device = 'CS5536 EHCI USB Host Controller (CS5536)'
 class  = serial bus
 subclass   = USB

Hi,

Can you add this device to the quirk entries in:

sys/dev/usb/controller/ehci.c

verify the patched driver and attach it to a FreeBSD PR?

--HPS
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-13 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 23:22:59 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 Can you add this device to the quirk entries in:
 
 sys/dev/usb/controller/ehci.c

ehci_pci.c actually.

--HPS
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-09 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/07/10 22:59, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes:
 
 On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...

 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Hi

 I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
 chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
 observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB
 partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports
 unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it
 to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a
 small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and
 two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I
 tried them on other hardware.

 As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
 timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
 have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track
 this down?

 Anselm

 If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls
 under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.

 --HPS

 Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
 When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
 seem gone.

 Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort:

 ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8


 Thanks,
 Anselm

 Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add this 
 quirk.

 --HPS

 Not sure what a PCI vendor ID is and how to determine it. It's a ALIX
 2d2 from http://pcengines.ch/alix.
 
 pciconf(8) will tell you.  Try sending pciconf -l output.

- pciconf -lv
hos...@pci0:0:1:0:  class=0x06 card=0x20801022 chip=0x20801022
rev=0x33 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
device = 'Conrad Kostecki'
class  = bridge
subclass   = HOST-PCI
no...@pci0:0:1:2:   class=0x101000 card=0x20821022 chip=0x20821022
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
device = 'Geode GX3 AES Crypto Driver (GX3)'
class  = encrypt/decrypt
v...@pci0:0:9:0:class=0x02 card=0x01061106 chip=0x30531106 rev=0x96
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies, Inc.'
device = 'Rhine III Management Adapter (VT6105M)'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
v...@pci0:0:11:0:   class=0x02 card=0x01061106 chip=0x30531106 rev=0x96
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies, Inc.'
device = 'Rhine III Management Adapter (VT6105M)'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
a...@pci0:0:12:0:   class=0x02 card=0x1600185f chip=0x001b168c
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
device = 'AR5006 family 802.11abg Wireless NIC'
class  = network
subclass   = ethernet
is...@pci0:0:15:0:  class=0x060100 card=0x20901022 chip=0x20901022
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
device = 'CS5536 [Geode companion] ISA'
class  = bridge
subclass   = PCI-ISA
atap...@pci0:0:15:2:class=0x010180 card=0x209a1022 chip=0x209a1022
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
device = 'CS5536 IDE Controller (CS5536)'
class  = mass storage
subclass   = ATA
oh...@pci0:0:15:4:  class=0x0c0310 card=0x20941022 chip=0x20941022
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
device = 'CS5536 OHCI USB Host Controller (CS5536)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB
eh...@pci0:0:15:5:  class=0x0c0320 card=0x20951022 chip=0x20951022
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)'
device = 'CS5536 EHCI USB Host Controller (CS5536)'
class  = serial bus
subclass   = USB

So I guess it is the last one, the ehci device.
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...

 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Hi

 I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
 chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
 observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB
 partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports
 unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it
 to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a
 small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and
 two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I
 tried them on other hardware.

 As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
 timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
 have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track
 this down?

 Anselm

 If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls
 under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.

 --HPS

 Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
 When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
 seem gone.

 Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort:

 ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8


 Thanks,
 Anselm
 
 Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add this 
 quirk.
 
 --HPS

Not sure what a PCI vendor ID is and how to determine it. It's a ALIX
2d2 from http://pcengines.ch/alix.

Anselm
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/07/10 22:12, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...

 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Hi

 I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
 chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
 observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB
 partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports
 unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it
 to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a
 small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and
 two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I
 tried them on other hardware.

 As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
 timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
 have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track
 this down?

 Anselm

 If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls
 under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.

 --HPS

 Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
 When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
 seem gone.

 Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort:

 ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8


 Thanks,
 Anselm

 Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add this 
 quirk.

 --HPS
 
 Not sure what a PCI vendor ID is and how to determine it. It's a ALIX
 2d2 from http://pcengines.ch/alix.
 
 Anselm

Sorry, wrong URL: http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes:

 On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...

 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Hi

 I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
 chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
 observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB
 partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports
 unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it
 to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a
 small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and
 two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I
 tried them on other hardware.

 As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
 timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
 have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track
 this down?

 Anselm

 If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls
 under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.

 --HPS

 Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
 When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
 seem gone.

 Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort:

 ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8


 Thanks,
 Anselm
 
 Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add this 
 quirk.
 
 --HPS

 Not sure what a PCI vendor ID is and how to determine it. It's a ALIX
 2d2 from http://pcengines.ch/alix.

pciconf(8) will tell you.  Try sending pciconf -l output.
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-02 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
 On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...

 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Hi

 I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip
 with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have observed
 various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB partition
 the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports unreadable
 sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it to /dev/null
 it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a small fraction
 of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and two different ALIX
 boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I tried them on other
 hardware.

 As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
 timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
 have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track this
 down?

 Anselm
 
 If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls under 
 hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.
 
 --HPS

Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
seem gone.

Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort:

ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8


Thanks,
Anselm
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-02 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
  On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
  Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...
  
  On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
  Hi
  
  I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
  chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
  observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB
  partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports
  unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it
  to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a
  small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and
  two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I
  tried them on other hardware.
  
  As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
  timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
  have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track
  this down?
  
  Anselm
  
  If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls
  under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.
  
  --HPS
 
 Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl.
 When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems
 seem gone.
 
 Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort:
 
 ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8
 
 
 Thanks,
 Anselm

Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add this 
quirk.

--HPS
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Anselm Strauss
Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...

On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Hi
 
 I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip
 with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have observed
 various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB partition
 the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports unreadable
 sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it to /dev/null
 it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a small fraction
 of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and two different ALIX
 boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I tried them on other
 hardware.
 
 As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
 timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
 have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track this
 down?
 
 Anselm

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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote:
 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...
 
 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:
  Hi
  
  I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip
  with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have observed
  various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB partition
  the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports unreadable
  sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it to /dev/null
  it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a small fraction
  of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and two different ALIX
  boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I tried them on other
  hardware.
  
  As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
  timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I
  have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track this
  down?
  
  Anselm

If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls under 
hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot.

--HPS
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Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:10:59 +0200,
Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com a écrit :

 Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ...
 
 On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote:

  I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion
  chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have
  observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250
  GB partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports
  unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct
  it to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read
  only a small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different
  disks and two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are
  okay since I tried them on other hardware.
  
  As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding
  timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding.
  I have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I
  track this down?

I use a Soekris Net5501 (amd Geode and cs5536 chip) too since
FreeBSD 6.X and I did not notice any problem with an usb disk (myne is
a 160 go disk). It is my home all-in-one box doing backup and NAS
(some times I make a backup on a usb drive)

I follow the Soekris mailing list and I do not remembered anymone
complaining about usb disk problems too.

Regards.
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