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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:20:15 +0000
From:      "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com>
To:        thierry@herbelot.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi>, sos@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.
Message-ID:  <70e8236f0711200220n28747b22x47da532e9e4b5f84@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200711200813.41929.thierry@herbelot.com>
References:  <472A548B.50406@lxnt.info> <20071119103430.GA15083@stud.ntnu.no> <4742838E.8010401@suutari.iki.fi> <200711200813.41929.thierry@herbelot.com>

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On 11/20/07, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wrote:
> Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a =E9crit :
>
> > 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 anyone an idea why the Promise controllers seemed to work correctly u=
nder
> 6.x, then have issues with 7.0 ? (more precisely : was the existing bug n=
ot
> triggered by the 6.x kernel ?)
>

Apparently not all Promise controllers are/were affected. I've been
running CURRENT since Pawel committed ZFS with an onboard Promise:

atapci0: <Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller> port
0xb000-0xb03f,0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb87f mem
0xfc024000-0xfc024fff,0xfc000000-0xfc01ffff irq 23 at device 4.0 on
pci4
ar0: 305245MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID0 (stripe 64 KB)> status: READY
ar1: 305245MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID0 (stripe 64 KB)> status: READY

atapci0@pci0:4:4:0:     class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x80f51043 chip=3D0x3319105=
a
rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
    vendor     =3D 'Promise Technology Inc'
    device     =3D 'PDC20319(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX4 Controller'
    class      =3D mass storage
    subclass   =3D RAID

The only problem I have and I'm filling a pr for that, is when booting
from CD with the controller enabled, the BTX loader just reboots.

--=20
Joao Barros



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