From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 11:31:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A36616A406 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:31:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9295B13C467 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so116485ugh for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:31:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jSYB9bmH6NxGF2PA03xchJbrICoNfdss6bFiEfZgmdhVMEzoyvh/t5TSRcZEnTMWS65MmcBoWi1oa6fPvTh++PUHlIjK8QTh+c9CFIXEG+vUsedpQQs0NqBgbLAm5qQQu7nBnXS9pgV05rvtWE0XCSEINkiu1X7wmGVppC4zdQI= Received: by 10.82.120.14 with SMTP id s14mr2561075buc.1171539098651; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:31:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.135.17 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:31:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0702150331w17bf331dn25cea69f32894e3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:31:38 +0000 From: Chris To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0702060701u4741dc0bie40ab3442aa2a979@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3aaaa3a0702060701u4741dc0bie40ab3442aa2a979@mail.gmail.com> Subject: nforce4 on freebsd 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:31:41 -0000 I noticed one of my servers works much better in freebsd 5 noticeably it is faster and more stable. I then found this post. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050529.html and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75540 So in freebsd 5.x there was limited nforce 4 support for pata devices and a patch made to support sata devices, so I checked the same file on freebsd 6.2 and there is no reference to ATA_NFORCE4 at all in the file, checked 5.4 and sure enough its there. So my question is why did ata-chipset.c in 2004 have some support for nforce4 and a patch in current which I think was 6.x at the time have support for sata and now nforce4 is completely wiped in 6.x? Was it not stable and scrapped for timescale to release or some other reason? nforce4 is a fairly popular chipset. My 150 sata hd is running in some sort of compatibility mode now as a result of the lack of a driver. Chris