From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 24 07:02:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2421B106566C for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soren.schmidt@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEB18FC22 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:02:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soren.schmidt@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so786773fgb.35 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:02:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=t4FQ4M1WCJkJE9j1f3Eq5qNJcyeqENcblpLMEjogvNE=; b=QRf21mm2BQEh4d32ehJHi8nBCYRurewmsOY4a8UIKjZ8dIh6NbeDjZwW302qq2/+kr ySv37XeUNq/2g+vyPSdf+k4q/xZnxsAk6IeqCpV7UXqRS1o48NRwFjJc2BFxM/r0SPnq SgV6N6kqACicH9kHYKQSDWgKBURJbB+HhJCFE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=yC9Kb+5MLikmNudGqPZw2F7zYz5yTbzl8iWRtK0o+D9ZpeUjQW03uBvZCZY7DeMi81 S10LL2oU6s6HVK3Tfv8tE01c/QeeHPL9a4/UQiO/x5DtERIO5L9yD1gRA1Utn69r9/yz SkLIgWLKUzdDQc97n8kvzFGLSqpuuCttJnc58= Received: by 10.181.24.14 with SMTP id b14mr551914bkj.104.1224829828496; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.181.32.20 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <82eac8c60810232330r7423cf85g33a8202a0ffed7f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:30:28 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?=" To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: <20081023190345.GA93688@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20081023190345.GA93688@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: David Boyd , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , "Andrey V. Elsukov" Subject: Re: Promise SX4060 on 7.1-BETA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:02:42 -0000 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote= : > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:01:55PM -0400, David Boyd wrote: > > I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise > > SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives. > > > > The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm > > retyping here) > > > > {snip -- for dmesg errors, see URL below} > > You're the second person to report this problem recently. The other > person (see below) reported the same thing, also using a PATA > controller, and also using Seagate disks (though different models). > > We now have two reproducible test cases where users are seeing continual > errors from the controller when attempting to set the transfer mode, > enable read and write caching, and SET_MULTI. The only similarity so > far is that they're both PATA users. > > In Kristian's case, his disks were in a usable state, but we ultimately > determine the Silicon Image controller might be responsible for what he > was seeing (the SMART errors we saw in his logs could've been from any > time in the past; he saw errors on multiple disks, and not all of those > disks shown SMART log errors)... while David's not using a Silicon Image > controller at all. > > Kristian's setup: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046023.htm= l > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046027.htm= l > > Silicon Image 0680 ATA100 (problem was also seen on Promise PDC20270) > ad4: at ata2-master PIO4 > ad5: at ata2-slave PIO4 > ad6: at ata3-master PIO4 > ad7: at ata3-slave PIO4 > > David's setup (what we know so far): > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046140.htm= l > > Promise SX4060 > ad4: 114473MB at ata2-master PIO4 > ad8: 114473MB at ata4-master PIO4 > > Soren/Andrey, can either of you comment on this? If at all possible, it > would be good to get this hammered out before 7.1-RELEASE is tagged. Does it work if booted on a 8-current kernel ? The driver path's used by the SiI0680 and the SX4060 are *very* different, mind you. -S=F8ren