Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 20:21:56 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: R J <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata pci cards in ultra 60 or blade 1000 (Update) Message-ID: <20090906182156.GA66161@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909051749450.4756@wnk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909051749450.4756@wnk>
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On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 05:50:17PM -0500, R J wrote: > Hi all, > I have upgraded the Os version on the blade 1000 to FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2. > > I am at a cross-road. I have Two sata controllers that are almost working. > > I just recently acquired a SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA > Controller. This controller had the same behaviour as the Sil 3512 as > explained in the attached email below from Jul 22, on ___FreeBSD 7.2___ > Stable. Since the upgrade to 8.0-BETA2, I actually get the SuperMicro to > see the attached Hitachi Disk Drive. The problem is that it doesn't > complete the booting! It hangs just after printing the details to the SCSI > boot/root disk, see SNIPPET. <...> > > So, can any body help get this to boot to normal os, and then maybe with > addition tweaks, I can the whole thing working. At a quick glance, atamarvell(4) is at least missing DMA synchronisation of the work area and isn't fully endian clean. You could try whether you get any further with the following patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/ata-marvell.c.diff But again, the fail-safe way to get SATA disks working on sparc64 would be to use a controller driven by mpt(4) rather than ata(4) as the latter really has a lot of problems. > > The other part of the cross-roads is the Sil 3512 development since my last > email from Jul 22, but I would rather concentrate on the SuperMicro > controller: But, if any body is curious, I now have the Sil 3512 show > disks, and I can put partitions on the disk, and mount it. It seems if I > put light activity on the disk, It works for a while; light activity being > moving files (tar or cp) to the disk on the Sil 3512 at a rate slower than > 5 or 6 MB/s. If that rate increases to past 6 or 7 MB/s, then I get a hard > lock. The ata driver detaches the disk on the Sil 3512, and the only way > to regain control is to do a hard reset/reboot. You should talk to mav@FreeBSD.org about problems with siis(4). Marius
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