Re: ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available

2009-07-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 15Jul, 2009, at 11:33 , Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: Over the past months I've gotten huge amounts of requests for ATA related things, so I've whipped up what I use here for FreeBSD 7.2- Release. This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in - current

Re: ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available

2009-07-01 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 27Jun, 2009, at 14:29 , Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:11:08 +0200 Søren Schmidt s...@deepcore.dk wrote: This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in - current, but based on my WIP not from what might have happend to - current since I gave up maintainership

ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available

2009-06-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
Over the past months I've gotten huge amounts of requests for ATA related things, so I've whipped up what I use here for FreeBSD 7.2- Release. This is a total replacement of the ATA driver, modulerized as in - current, but based on my WIP not from what might have happend to - current since

WANTED! board models with Marvell 61XX chips

2009-01-26 Thread Søren Schmidt
Hi there! I thought I finally had a motherboard using one of the Marvell SATA/ PATA chips coming in, but unfortunately the delivery has been postponed to some unspecified date, oh well.. Thats where you come into the picture as I'd like to get another one, but finding boards that uses

Re: [RFC] patch to AHCI device detection code

2008-06-11 Thread Søren Schmidt
Hi Well, as you can see I tried this when I added the PM code to AHCI, however one of the reasons I left it out again (for now) is that it doesn't work on more than about 50% of the AHCI chipsets out there.. Modern HW in a nutshell, you win some you loose some ;) -Søren On 11Jun,

Re: [RFC] patch to AHCI device detection code

2008-06-11 Thread Søren Schmidt
find a generic solution this time around. I'll commit this patch for now, as you said, it doesn't hurt.. -Søren On 11Jun, 2008, at 10:00 , Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: Well, as you can see I tried this when I added the PM code to AHCI, however one of the reasons I left

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
Joao Barros wrote: On 11/20/07, Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a écrit : I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with 7.0 betas before, but with this patch things run as well as they did on 6.x. Ari S. Hello, Has

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
Hi All! I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) -Søren ? promise-fix2 ? promise-fix3 Index: ata-chipset.c

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
Ulf Lilleengen wrote: I tried the patch, but I end up with the partition table being incorrectly read (probably) on the drives connected to my TX4 card. Normally, there's one partition on the drive, but when I apply the patch, the drive provider (ad6) is all that shows up in /dev. When I

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Søren Schmidt wrote: Good catch! However from my quick glimpse at the Promise sources the limit seems to be 32 Dwords ie 32*4 = 128bytes. I'll investigate further and ask Promise for the gory details, stay tuned... I dont think the PRD count limitation is a real problem, I've newer seen

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: Hello. I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. Bug description: SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in a dma transfer) is larger than 164 bytes. This was found while

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: definitely an improvement, but not sufficient (for my setup ) : amd64-releng_6 on an ASUS A8V UP (box ran rock-stable for years i386-releng_5 with same hardware apart TX4 and drives) from dmesg : atapci0: Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller port

Re: sil3124 sata raid ...

2007-02-26 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christian Brueffer wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: LI Xin wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, Just wondering if there is any planned support for this card (or similar) I've added sos@ to Cc list, who may have interest

Re: sil3124 sata raid ...

2007-02-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
LI Xin wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Hi, Just wondering if there is any planned support for this card (or similar) I've added sos@ to Cc list, who may have interest to this as well. Note that developing drivers requires that the developer has his hands on actual hardware and hardware

Re: Patch for Intel 5000X hardware (ata and ichsmb)

2006-08-13 Thread Søren Schmidt
Reed A. Cartwright wrote: Freebsd wouldn't recognize my hard drive contoler, so I modified a patch I found on the stable list, adding all the device ids I found in Intel's documentation. Please add this to the stable or current branch. Below is the patch, I made with respect to

Re: Question on SATA Hotplug, NCQ and Port Multiplier support

2006-08-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Sean Thomson wrote: Howdy Folks, I'm trying to find out what the current/future support for SATA hotplug, NCQ, and Port Multiplier is. Specifically, I'm tied to intel's ICH9 SATA controller and pegged to implement the features if they aren't planned or available. That last part is up in the

Re: SATA300 Controllers

2006-07-07 Thread Søren Schmidt
Rick C. Petty wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation

Re: ????: Help:why bus resource shortage?

2006-06-30 Thread Søren Schmidt
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Gerald Heinig wrote this message on Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:41 +0200: On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 01:16 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: This has now been fixed by making the built in driver return a negative value for the probe.. so your probe routine can return 0,

RE: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

2006-03-23 Thread Søren Schmidt
On Tor, 2006-03-23 at 14:55 -0500, Alain Hebert wrote: Hi, I'm about to invest in some Tyan Transport GT20 B5350G20S2H-LC. But since my epic battle trying to make the Promise Fasttrak 2300TX (PDC20580?) works right in Raid1, 2 weeks ago I'm a bit concern about those new SATA

Re: About amd64 dualcore problems with two SATA disks and nforce4

2006-03-09 Thread Søren Schmidt
Daniel Valencia wrote: Hello, I started a short thread a few weeks ago, pointing out a problem with my dualcore athlon64, when detecting the second SATA disk (/dev/ad6)... my chipset is an nForce4... The problem was narrowed down to a few commits performed at a particular date and time. My

Re: About amd64 dualcore problems with two SATA disks and nforce4

2006-03-09 Thread Søren Schmidt
Daniel Valencia wrote: Hi, So, what's your last src/ cvsup date/time? is your machine dualcore? if so, are you building using the SMP option? yep: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2412.37-MHz K8-class CPU) and yep: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs

Re: kern/60163

2006-02-13 Thread Søren Schmidt
Chiharu Shibata wrote: At Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:02:37 JST, you wrote... To mount this DISC, your opinion is... (1) at first, try cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0c info to make sure where track is data area. (2) type mount_cd9660 -o rdonly /dev/acd0t13 /cdrom. Is this right? Yeah that used to work at

Re: kern/60163

2006-02-12 Thread Søren Schmidt
Norikatsu Shigemura wrote: I heard from Chiharu Shibata [EMAIL PROTECTED] about kern/60163. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/60163 (He knew that this pr was closed, recently) I cannot believe sos's close reason.

Re: kern/60163

2006-02-12 Thread Søren Schmidt
Chiharu Shibata wrote: [snip] So, if we should rehash this again I'll need more details on what it is that fails exactly doing what, CD layouts etc etc... This is a sample DISC's rayout. Starting track = 1, ending track = 13, TOC size = 114 bytes track start duration block

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
life. Indeed, 55C is way to high for 24/7 usage, and it might be that the drive is choking on it and barely is able to compensate.. What does SMART say ? any unusual like high correction rates or anything ? Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
, is that on the raw disk device or though the filesystem ? Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
where the slowdown is yet... You need to find out what the transfer rates are for the RAW disk, ie by doing a dd from /dev/zero to the disk with a a resonable blocksize say 1M to minimize overhead. Also read speed from disk to /dev/null blocksize 1M would be helpfull. Søren Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
in there ? more than 4G and bounce buffering might get into the picture ruining the transfer rate... Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
get into the picture ruining the transfer rate... 2Gb right now. Does the 4Gb limit apply to amd64 as well? Yes, the SiI3114 is a 32bit device.. Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Native ATAPI MO driver

2005-10-24 Thread Søren Schmidt
disappeared from all the vendors I've asked so it was pu ton the backburner. Anyhow I should have the docs somewhere so it should be possible to get this working... Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

2005-09-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
Roger O. Svenning wrote: On 14/09/2005, at 17:36, Roger O. Svenning wrote: You should try 6.0-beta4 as that contains the solution to whatever ATA problems you might have on 5.x. Let me know how that goes. Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvsup running as I'm writing this Would I waste

Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

2005-09-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
-beta4 as that contains the solution to whatever ATA problems you might have on 5.x. Let me know how that goes. Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

2005-09-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 14/09/2005, at 17:36, Roger O. Svenning wrote: You should try 6.0-beta4 as that contains the solution to whatever ATA problems you might have on 5.x. Let me know how that goes. Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvsup running as I'm writing this Would I waste my time trying to enable raid

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 22/08/2005, at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? I got an Accelerometer driver which will deliver data. First Version is available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=138242package_id=160977 We have to

Re: URGENT for 5.4-R: ATA meister, read this now - 64/32 bits error found - Trouble with ataraid

2005-04-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: I think I may have found the problem!!! Looking at the source code for arstrategy, we can find this: - static void arstrategy(struct bio *bp) { struct ar_softc *rdp = bp-bio_disk-d_drv1; int blkno, count, chunk, lba, lbs, tmplba;

Re: SATA NCQ by software?

2005-04-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: Hi, To use the advantages of SATA NCQ, do I have to use a specific controller, or is this only a software matter? Both actually, and a disk that supports it as well. I'm working on getting the ATA driver to handle NCQ (and the older TCQ for that matter). --

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi hackers, could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD ? I have plans to buy a machine which motherboard has ICH6 SATA RAID integrated and i want to know whether i will be able to run FreeBSD on it. The hardware part is

Re: ATA security commands, bug in atacontrol

2005-04-03 Thread Søren Schmidt
ALeine wrote: Recent c't magazine article At Your Disservice - How ATA security functions jeopardize your data, which you can find at the URL below, warns about the dangers of ATA security commands. Specifically, a malicious attacker with sufficient access could render a disk useless to the

Re: burndvd instead of growisofs?

2005-03-31 Thread Søren Schmidt
Eric Anderson wrote: Is anyone working on a 'burndvd'? I have to use growisofs to burn dvd's in FreeBSD, which means I need a port, so the base system doesn't burn dvd's. It's no crisis, but wouldn't it be nice if FreeBSD could burn dvd's without a port, without atapicam, etc? Anyway, I

Re: DMA TIMEOUT PROBLEM

2005-03-24 Thread Søren Schmidt
haad wrote: Hi, This is pretty basic question which has been allready discused here but i can't find answer .On my workstation i use linux and freebsd linux works fine without any errors but freebsd shhows numerous errors and i don't know what to do. I test freebsd 5.2.1-released ,5.3 released

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disks as RAID

2005-02-17 Thread Søren Schmidt
Amandeep Pannu wrote: Hi all, I have this Supermicro MB P4SCI and I am using the onboard SATA controllers and making a RAID of two Seagate 80Gb SATA drives but when I try to install FreeBSD 4.11 it doesnt see the drives configured as RAID. Any ideas as if this is supported or not. If I try single

Re: ATA_IDENTIFY timed out on ASUS P4VP-MX

2005-02-07 Thread Søren Schmidt
Luiz Otavio Souza wrote: I tried the patch, and just get a different warning. i'm attaching two dmesg, one with 5.3-RELEASE (with some extra debug info) and one for ATA-mIII. Hmm, seems interrupt arent getting through, not much I can do about that one. Maybe -current can help as its interrupt

Re: ATA_IDENTIFY timed out on ASUS P4VP-MX

2005-02-06 Thread Søren Schmidt
Luiz Otavio Souza wrote: Recently one of my clients get a new (very cheap) P4VP-MX wich uses a VIA VT8235 Southbridge. This machine is not detecting (identify) ATA disk under 5.3. I have tested with 5.3-STABLE and 5.3-RELEASE, with 4.X it works. I tried with different disks and with CDROM, but

Re: ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

2005-01-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
First thanks to all those that responded to this inquiry, it has given me a pointer to how wanted this is. Chris Faulhaber wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote: Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in

Re: Problem with FastTrak S150 SX4-M

2005-01-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
Dave Myron wrote: It's not red but it is the PRI_RAID IDE connector. I have the controller set to IDE in the BIOS so it should act just as any other IDE controller (according to the manual and many other sources). I have two hard drives on the primary IDE (not on the controller) and a CD drive on

ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

2005-01-24 Thread Søren Schmidt
Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in peace :) Finding a new one seems difficult so I thought I'd ask around how many still has one of these ? I ask because the support code for those seem to have suffered bitrot to the degree

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
yoke an wrote: Could you try 5.3? I think 4.8 does not support SATA well, if at all. On contrary, I am using SATA on 5.3 without problems, the last time I tried 4.10 all I got was unknown disk or something like this. Milan Thanks. I knew 5.3 is work very well. But due to my

Re: ata_catch_inflight causes boot freeze

2005-01-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 16.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kris Maglione: On my laptop, while the call to ata_catch_inflight is in dev/ata/ata-all.c, my laptop freezes at boot, after detecting acd0 and doing GEOM: Configure for ad0. I don't mind commenting out the line in my builds, but others

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-23 Thread Søren Schmidt
David Gilbert wrote: Søren == Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Søren David Gilbert wrote: João == João Carlos Mendes Luís [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: João IIF they really have command queueing, I do believe. So, a João bridged SATA drive will not have command queuing, right? Well... from

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
Steven Hartland wrote: I believe the second gen Raptors ( 74Gb ) are also native SATA nope. Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are: Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8 Maxtor DiamondMax10, MaXLineIII Fujitsu MHT20xxBH(2.5 inch) Any other drives (as far as I know, of

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
Steven Hartland wrote: Ah just added TCQ but still bridged I stand corrected :) Right, I guess they just pulled it out from the attic, they had it on some PATA devices back when, but there it newer caught on either :) -- -Søren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
David Gilbert wrote: João == João Carlos Mendes Luís [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: João IIF they really have command queueing, I do believe. So, a João bridged SATA drive will not have command queuing, right? Well... from what I've read, the WD bridged drives do have queueing because they had an

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Thomas Wolf wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote: Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are: Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8 I have one of these, and I am really impressed by its

Re: serial ATA support?

2004-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Yury Tarasievich wrote: Do I understand right (after looking into sources) that 4-STABLE has no support for serial ATA devices?? Almost none, it works with a few controllers that looks like stock ATA ones (HPT fx). Anyhow you want 5.3 to get real SATA support.. -- -Søren

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mikhail P. wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2004 23:30, Mikhail P. wrote: On Saturday 09 October 2004 17:01, Mikhail P. wrote: I also got another message off-list, where author suggested to play with UDMA values. I switched from UDMA100 to UDMA66. System's uptime is 12 hours, and no timeouts so far..

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-09 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mikhail P. wrote: Hi, This question probably has been discussed numerous times, but I'm somewhat unsure what really causes ATA failures.. I have pretty basic server here which has two IDE drives - each is 200GB. System is FreeBSD-5.2.1-p9 That server has been setup about 9 months ago, and just

Re: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /

2004-10-04 Thread Søren Schmidt
Ceri Davies wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 08:27:45PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dmitry Karasik wrote: I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)? Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs, and use it instead of rm.

Re: Raid problems

2004-09-21 Thread Søren Schmidt
DB wrote: Hi all I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-Beta5 on a friend's server. He has a promise fasttracks SX4000 raid controller (raid level 5), but when booting freebsd we get a list of all the 4 disks. Is that right? (haven't tried installing freebsd on a raid computer). I've tried install

Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

2004-08-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote: How standard are DVD writers these days? In the sense of: can I expect an ATAPI DVDwriter to 'just work' with FreeBSD or are there brands/models to avoid or to prefer? Any experiences

Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

2004-08-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:11:50PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: I used my own creation that at some point could replace burncd, but for now it is just a skunkworks project (and no I wont hand out copies :) ) I would think that growisofs will work (I do have an ATA version

Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

2004-08-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:44:03PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: You meant a growisofs version that does not require ATAPICAM? Yes, one that uses the ATA userland interface instead, just as I have versions of cdrecord/cdrdao. I used in past your cdrecord version when

Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

2004-08-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:08:48PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: I used in past your cdrecord version when it was available on your site. Is there any new version freely available? :) They are still at my site actually, butI havn't cared to update them much (dont fix what

Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

2004-08-09 Thread Søren Schmidt
Wilko Bulte wrote: How standard are DVD writers these days? In the sense of: can I expect an ATAPI DVDwriter to 'just work' with FreeBSD or are there brands/models to avoid or to prefer? Any experiences with a NEC ND-2510 ? Good/bad? Bought one of those a couble of weeks ago, it has burnt CDR,

Re: Orinoco Gold and Linksys AP

2004-06-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Liam J. Foy wrote: : Hey guys, : : I have also emailed this to freebsd-mobile@, so just writing to see if any of you guys have had any problems with an Orinoco Gold and a Linksys AP

Re: Orinoco Gold and Linksys AP

2004-06-04 Thread Søren Schmidt
Liam J. Foy wrote: Hey guys, I have also emailed this to freebsd-mobile@, so just writing to see if any of you guys have had any problems with an Orinoco Gold and a Linksys AP in -CURRENT. They seem to both work fine in windows, just unable to ping each other in freebsd. Here is the

Re: Third IDE hard disk

2004-05-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mark wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Find out what the controller is it might not be supported or may need compiling into a custom kernel. It is a fairly standard onboard Promise 20376 controller. Perhaps I need to recompile the kernel? Something like: device ata2 at isa? port IO_WD3 irq 16 You

Re: Third IDE hard disk

2004-05-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mark wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Find out what the controller is it might not be supported or may need compiling into a custom kernel. It is a fairly standard onboard Promise 20376 controller. Perhaps I need to recompile the kernel? Something like: device ata2 at isa

Re: Third IDE hard disk

2004-05-15 Thread Søren Schmidt
Mark wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: Find out what the controller is it might not be supported or may need compiling into a custom kernel. It is a fairly standard onboard Promise 20376 controller. Perhaps I need to recompile the kernel? Something like: device ata2 at isa? port IO_WD3 irq 16 You

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Thanks for all the helpful tips so far. It is a DLTA 307045 (3.5) Don't know whether this is a 75GXP. It is one of the dreaded models experience shows that all models after this has some kind of problems, no wonder they sold out :) I'm getting either these: ad2:

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: It is now dumping and I'm at 2.7 GB meanwhile. No more errors since the last one at LBA=67 . Are these LBS identical to the block #? Yes. Maybe I'll give it another try (when this pass is through) and dump from the beginning. I'm about to get me a second

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-12 Thread Søren Schmidt
C. Kukulies wrote: Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar IDE disk crashed. It has a FreeBSD 4.8 on it with important data and programs. Yes, shame on me that I didn't care about doing backups on it but it has happened. I evend tend to expend the bucks to get it recovered but

Re: HDD questions

2004-03-08 Thread Søren Schmidt
Roman Kurakin wrote: Hi, I have some problems with my HDD (ST380021A). The problem was checked on 5.2, 5.2.1, and some 5.Current (cvsuped about week or two). At first I got this problem while system installation. I get trap and message from ata after I start a commit: FAILURE READ_DMA

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-02-01 Thread Søren Schmidt
Sean Hamilton wrote: Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | These are not hangs these are pauses and happens because the | kernel thinks there are devices on these channels (are there ? no | dmesg provided) and waits for the 31secs the spec calls for. Now, | I have one of those exact Promise

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-01-30 Thread Søren Schmidt
Sean Hamilton wrote: Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: | | I have two Asus boards (A7V8X and A7V) which have in common a | | Promise ATA controller. Both of these boards hang up for about a | | minute during the boot of 5.1-RELEASE, and emit messages about

Re: cdcontrol(1) speed command

2002-04-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Philipp Mergenthaler wrote: @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #endif /* not lint */ #include sys/cdio.h +#include sys/cdrio.h Jörg Wunsch commented that adding include sys/cdrio.h would be wrong and that this ioctl should be moved to sys/cdio.h instead. (I guess then it should be

Re: ATA Controller choices

2002-02-21 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: ... However the Serverworks ROSB4 chips is not one I would recommend using, if you need serious ATA support on such a board, install a Promise TX2 or later or a HPT370 or later ... I think I've also seen you post that the Highpoint

Re: Serverworks ATA controller data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: I have a few machines with the following ata controller: atapci0@pci0:15:1: class=0x01018a card=0x chip=0x0266 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 They're dual-boot FreeeBSD/linux boxes. After loosing 2 filesystems in linux, I did a web search and I found that

Re: Serverworks ATA controller data corruption

2002-02-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: Andrew Gallatin wrote: Terry Lambert writes: So.. Is PIO safe? Is there any sort of CRC being done on PIO data? He just said: if your chipset is programmed correctly by the BIOS, then there will not be a problem, but apparently, there is a

Re: Again Softupdates on 4.5

2002-01-31 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: It sounds as if the default five seconds isn't always enough time for your disk to do its job. (I've only done poweroff on an idle system so I haven't run into such a problem myself.) I don't see it would hurt anything for this default to be increased

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2002-01-03 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Kristian K. Nielsen wrote: Hey Søren, Do you have any idea what to do with the problems I am experiencing with the Intel-series chipset? Uhm, what Intel chipset exactly, or is it a VIA chipset for Intel you mean ? Throw me a pciconf -l and I'll check.. -Søren To Unsubscribe:

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-31 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Nils Holland wrote: root@poison pciconf -r -b pci0:0:0 0x0:0xff Thanks! this was a kernel without the corruption fix, and it shows that you need it, the MWQ bug has been fixed in your BIOS... I have a new improved patch in the works that covers more chipset comboes, it'll go into

Re: Possible Promise FastTrack RAID driver

2001-12-29 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Alson van der Meulen wrote: When searching for FreeBSD support for the Promise 20265r (FastTrack RAID, ATA100, integrated on some mainboards), I came across this, it looks like a FreeBSD RAID driver for this controller. It doesn't seem to be an official released driver, this is the

Re: Possible Promise FastTrack RAID driver

2001-12-29 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Søren Schmidt wrote: We already have support for the Fasttraks in the kernel (and have had that for a long time now), with code that is developed outside Promise. However it still needs a bit of work, but with a little luck that should clear up soon.. BTW, it is interesting to see

Re: Possible Promise FastTrack RAID driver

2001-12-29 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Alson van der Meulen wrote: S?ren Schmidt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.12.29 10:15:03 +: It seems S?ren Schmidt wrote: We already have support for the Fasttraks in the kernel (and have had that for a long time now), with code that is developed outside Promise. However it

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-29 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: :Anyways could I have you guys read out all 256 PCI regs from the :main chip that is the 0x03051106 one ? : :-Søren How is this done? With pciconf, fx: sos# pciconf -r -b pci0:0:0 0x0:0xff 06 11 05 03 06 00 10 22 03 00 00 06 00 08 00 00 08 00 00 d0

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-29 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Nils Holland wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:42:20PM +0100, Søren Schmidt stood up and spoke: It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: :Anyways could I have you guys read out all 256 PCI regs from the :main chip that is the 0x03051106 one ? : :-Søren How is this done

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: Information that could be interesting is (here my values): Processor:AMD Duron 850 Motherboard: ECS K7VZA Memory: 1 128 MB SIMM, 100 MHz. What FreeBSD version are you using ? I have put a fix for the 686b southbridge bug in -current, but it is

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: I have had this exact problem. I have an Epox 8KTA board with a 1GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) with 256MB of PC-133 memory. I would consistently get random errors, usually during a compilation, using the default BIOS settings. After fiddling with some of the BIOS

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: Ok, I have more information on Nils problem. First of all, Soren's patch greatly reduced the rate of corruption. It took 25 loops of Nils 'cp' test to generate the corruption. Hmm, did the second change I posted change anything ? However,

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Mike Silbersack wrote: Agreed, it looks like the MWQ bug isn't addressed by soren's patch. The decription at http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/readme/faqvl019.htm doesn't give enough info to patch it, but this post to the linux-kernel mailing list seems to shed more light

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: Note that we aren't complaining about your patch or anything, you are simply the closest thing we have to a VIA chip expert right now :-) I know, I want to nail this as badly as you guys do, I just want to have the info I use verified before I base any

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: Sorry, I meant I'd follow up with Matthew Gilbert. Also, I've been trying to track down a crash in nfs_node that Nils Holland has been having - he appears to have the same chipset and could have the same problem, and he can reproduce the panic

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: Soren, if you post a patch for 4.x I will be happy to follow-up with Brady. I've been working with Brady for several days now trying to track down corruption in the vm_page array. I *really* want to know if a VIA chipset patch solves his

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Danny Braniss wrote: It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote: So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot output. atapci0: VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Wilko Bulte wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote: So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot output. atapci0: VIA 82C686

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspectsnew ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Pete French wrote: Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else really cared at the time Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then you wont get the fix ?

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspectsnew ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Søren Schmidt wrote: Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI loads then this can potentially affect people with large amounts of PCI activity on SCSI drives too surely ? Granted I've never

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: This is great news! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that Nils can't reproduce the crash any more with Soren's fix. Me too :) I have a small change that can be used if performace suffers too badly, it has not provoked the problem again on any of the

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 15:20, ian j hart wrote: Myself and others have had IDE related problems. Search the stable and hardware mail archives for UDMA and ICRC [and ianjhart] for examples. There is also the only supports 16MxN RAM feature.

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspectsnew ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-26 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: I am trying to determine if our ATA/VIA setup code may have issues. I did a google search and came up with a linux-quirks patch which may apply to the random corruption problems people have been reporting. Here is the URL:

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