Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:16:26 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ICH7 SATA RAID Broken, Was (Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...) Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEKIFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0604121747w433c6087mb4f33c43a8b038d1@mail.gmail.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:nikolas.britton@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:47 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; sos@freebsd.org >Subject: ICH7 SATA RAID Broken, Was (Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...) > > >On 4/12/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm@toybox.placo.com] >> >Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:04 PM >> >To: Nikolas Britton >> >Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >Subject: RE: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE... >> > >> >>-----Original Message----- >> >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of >> >Nikolas Britton >> >>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:25 PM >> >>To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> >>Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>Subject: Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE... >> >> >> >> >> >>I think the ICH7 sata problem has already been fixed, check the logs >> >>here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ if not >> >>jump onto the stable mailing list and start waving your hands. >> >> >> > >> >I'm doing a make release on today's cvs as we speak, I'll >see tomorrow >> >if it recognizes the disks. >> > >> >> Nikolas, >> >> Just an update, no the ICH7R problem has not been fixed. >> >> OpenSUSE recognizes the array, though. >> > >Send email to Søren Schmidt sos@FreeBSD.org I have been already. Soren is very responsive to PR's if the people filing them meet him halfway and he responded as soon as the PR was filed. >and/or post this on the >stable mailing list, their is nothing I can do personally that will >fix it for you. I know that. What I was pointing out is that while your enthusiasm is commendable, FreeBSD 6.1 really isn't totally ready for prime time. The HP DL320 G4 is a pretty cheap server - it's positioned squarely to compete agressively with the black box intel motherboard servers out there. It's also got an embedded remote control package that is fantastic - you can do a nuke and repave of the server remotely if you want. We are going to see a lot of these out there pretty soon. And if HP could fuck up the SATA controller to make it not work, then other server vendors can do it also. I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg with the ICH7R controllers. Damn Intel for designing a controller that apparently lets designers "improve" it. >You could start hacking away at the problem if you >know some C, digging around in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ > Soren sent a patch this morning which I think gave him some more data to work with. We will see. Unfortunately, though, getting the SATA controller working on this beast is just the first problem - there's also (I suspect) something not kosher about the ethernet ports either. But until I get a system on it, I can't dig into that. Ted
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