From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Aug 21 12:53:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fpsn.net (mail.fpsn.net [63.224.69.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140D237B40F for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:51:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfaber@fpsn.net) Received: from fpsn.net (control.fpsn.net [63.224.69.60]) by mail.fpsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA32065; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:51:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from cfaber@fpsn.net) Message-ID: <3B82BBBF.9131C949@fpsn.net> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:51:27 -0600 From: Colin Faber Reply-To: cfaber@fpsn.net Organization: fpsn.net, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Cc: kalts@estpak.ee, noackjr@compgeek.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise TX2 Ultra100 [was Re: Bye bye dear SMP-system] References: <20010821190311.1FFC237B407@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not so sure on that. I know that there was an entry into ata-pci.c committed to -CURRENT through im not sure who committed it. Aaron wrote: > > I was under the impression that support for TX2 based Promise cards is > non-existant due to Promise's lack of sharing needed information. Is this > still true? Or has someone been able to get working drivers for this > series of cards? > > If so, thats another one to chalk up for review ;) > > - aaron > > --------------------------------------------- > click46[wp] - AIM the click46 - ICQ 43450396 > webpimps.net | bsdatwork.com | nerdserve.net > moderator - o/c cooling forum @ hardforum.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Colin Faber > To: sos@freebsd.dk > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:54:39 -0600 > Subject: Re: Bye bye dear SMP-system > > > I do, and its totally unused, > > > > Would you like me to mail it? > > > > > > `Promise TX2 Ultra100' > > > > "Søren Schmidt" wrote: > > > > > > It seems Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The HPT366 has HW issues with some of the fast disk, I havn't > > been able > > > > > to find a solution to that, nor has HPT as far as I'm informed.. > > > > > > > > Oh no, with Promise one can't use tagged queing at all, with HPT > > > > there's another problem... Are there any combinations of controller > > > > (such as Promise, HPT), disks and driver which works successfully > > > > under load? The whole ATA scene seems totally hopeless. > > > > > > I dont think you can buy the HPT366 anymore, the current HPT370 > > > works just dandy, in fact its my recommendation any time... > > > > > > On the Promise front I need to get ahold of one of their newer > > > controller and see if they've fixed their DMA engine to > > > support tagged queing, anybody got a spare Promise ctrl, > > > prefarably the newest "TX2" based one ?? > > > > > > -Søren > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message