Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:51:16 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Ari Suutari <ari@suutari.iki.fi>, thierry@herbelot.com Subject: Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround. Message-ID: <47430274.4030109@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0711200220n28747b22x47da532e9e4b5f84@mail.gmail.com> References: <472A548B.50406@lxnt.info> <20071119103430.GA15083@stud.ntnu.no> <4742838E.8010401@suutari.iki.fi> <200711200813.41929.thierry@herbelot.com> <70e8236f0711200220n28747b22x47da532e9e4b5f84@mail.gmail.com>
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Joao Barros wrote: > On 11/20/07, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wrote: > =20 >> Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a =E9crit : >> >> =20 >>> 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. >>> =20 >> Hello, >> >> Has anyone an idea why the Promise controllers seemed to work correctl= y under >> 6.x, then have issues with 7.0 ? (more precisely : was the existing bu= g not >> triggered by the 6.x kernel ?) >> >> =20 The problems as in the Promise HW, so it bound to happen on 6.x as well. = Note that it just leads to data corruption not nessesarily hangs/lockups.= > > 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 > =20 No, only the newer "Gen2" chips, the older should be safe. > atapci0@pci0:4:4:0: class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x80f51043 chip=3D0x331= 9105a > 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 Thats at least not an ATA problem :) -S=F8ren
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