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

2004-02-08 Thread Sean Hamilton
Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hmm, those hangs are just time spent waiting for drives (that in this | case are not there, but it can be difficult to tell). Could we have a tunable timeout, or some means of disabling the device altogether? My BIOS gives no such option. I've noticed if I

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

2004-02-01 Thread Sean Hamilton
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 controllers and there it

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 Sean Hamilton
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 ad* | | devices being

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

2003-10-07 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 06 October 2003 12:10 am, Soren Schmidt 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 ad*

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

2003-10-06 Thread Sean Hamilton
I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board. Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller, am I safe in assuming this will not be supported for some time? I have

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

2003-10-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board. Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller, am I safe in assuming this will not be