> I've heard tell that there are problems with the VIA chipset and UDMA on
> FreeBSD. Is this true, and if so, what is the problem with?
>
> FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Dec 8 01:52:44 EST 2000
> atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0xe000-0xe00f at device 7.1 on
> pci0
> ad0: 19546MB <FUJITSU MPF3204AT> [39714/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
Sounds similar to the problem I've had with the HPT controller on my
Abit BP6. If you look at the -stable archives from the last few days
you'll see some suggestions. I should really move this drive to one
of the ATA33 controllers since the drive itself only (??) does about
30M/s sustained anyway.
atapci1: <HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller> port
0xd800-0xd8ff,0xd400-0xd403,0xd000-0xd007 irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0
ata2: at 0xd000 on atapci1
ad4: 29311MB <Maxtor 53073U6> [59554/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66
> The drive has enough space and I have 512MB RAM. If I hit the system hard,
> lets say, rm -rf /usr/ports, the system locks up.
I have to hit mine harder. The more I upgrade FreeBSD, the more times
it successfully resets the devices after a read timeout, but eventually
it hangs while resetting. With 4.2 (or maybe it's softupdates) it
manages to save some of the errors in /var/log/messages.
No page faults. Haven't had a persistant kernel "page not present"
problem since FreeBSD 1.1.5. Also, my UDMA66 problem is happening
on a machine with ECC mem.
Another datapoint: my desktop machine (until yesterday running 3.4)
has an IBM disk in it which likes to spin down on its own, causing
timeouts on the first access afterwards. It's irritating (though not
enough that I've investigated jumpering it for always-on) but it has
never hung the system.
--Ben
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