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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