From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 10:15:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9BF37BF2E for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA23031 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:15:17 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA40757 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:06:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:06:52 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Message-ID: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi ! Some possibly dump questions from a SCSI user regarding EIDE. I want to buy the new Maxtor 40 GB EIDE drive, 7200 U/min for my FreeBSD system. My 4 2GB SCSI disks (IBM DORS 31260) are too small now and too loud for a home system. I have a TYAN Titan Pro board with 2 PPro 200. The last BIOS upgrade I did, made udma33 possible. http://www.tyan.com/support/html/bios_titan_pro.html TYN TITAN-PRO V5.01 5/8/98 V5.01 Award BIOS for all Titan Pro series motherboards. Includes a pci vga irq setup item and support for UDMA33 HDD, .... I think the drive would also run fine with udma33, or ??? If I want to get the most speed out of the new disk, I would need udma66 support. But how do I get udma66, if my mainbords BIOS only supports udma33 ??? Would I be able to run udma66, if I would buy a separate EIDE pci controller and disabling the EIDE controller on my mainboard ? Or is this completely BIOS dependend ??? Tyan itself offers currently no other BIOS upgrade for this board. If I would need a BIOS upgrade, is there another possibility to upgrade my BIOS ? Or do I need BIOS upgrades from my board manufacturer ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 10:59:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from devils.maquina.com (devils.maquina.com [62.229.71.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 825F737B960 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:59:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel@maquina.com) Received: from localhost (gabriel@localhost) by devils.maquina.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA55530; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:58:55 GMT (envelope-from gabriel@maquina.com) X-Authentication-Warning: devils.maquina.com: gabriel owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:58:55 +0000 (WET) From: Jose Gabriel Marcelino To: Andreas Klemm Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios In-Reply-To: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Andreas Klemm wrote: > If I want to get the most speed out of the new disk, I would need > udma66 support. But how do I get udma66, if my mainbords BIOS only > supports udma33 ??? > > Would I be able to run udma66, if I would buy a separate EIDE > pci controller and disabling the EIDE controller on my mainboard ? > Or is this completely BIOS dependend ??? Hi Andreas, Well, your best choice to get udma66 from your existing system would be to get a separate EIDE controller, I think the only one supported currently under FreeBSD is the Promise FastTrack66 or Ultra66 controller, however this is just under -CURRENT I think. This card will even provide two additional ide channels running udma66 complementing the two udma33 ones already on your motherboard. The BIOS couldn't care less about it also as FreeBSD's ATA driver takes full control of the hardware. However please note I'm not sure going with udma66 will give you any significant boost in performance for a single disk, however this is my opinion and I'm sure someone else will be far more qualified to clear this. Also I would suggest you look into IBM disks and stay away from the Maxtors... Regards Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 11:29:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6EC37BF4F for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA04161; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:29:07 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:29:47 +0100 To: Andreas Klemm From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I want to buy the new Maxtor 40 GB EIDE drive, 7200 U/min >for my FreeBSD system. My 4 2GB SCSI disks (IBM DORS 31260) >are too small now and too loud for a home system. > >I have a TYAN Titan Pro board with 2 PPro 200. The last BIOS >upgrade I did, made udma33 possible. >>I think the drive would also run fine with udma33, or ??? Hi! Well, should... there are always some issues with those drives only being able to do UDMA33, but there are also some utils (including firmware up/downgrades) that will fix that. >If I want to get the most speed out of the new disk, I would need >udma66 support. But how do I get udma66, if my mainbords BIOS only >supports udma33 ??? Not by mainboard assistance. But to run UDMA/66, you also need the special 80-wire cabling, IIRC UDMA/66 also will do something better to CPU utilization, but unless you are not having some more of that beasts in your machine, there will be no big difference to UDMA/33. >Would I be able to run udma66, if I would buy a separate EIDE >pci controller and disabling the EIDE controller on my mainboard ? >Or is this completely BIOS dependend ??? Those Promise and Abit etc. Controllers come with their on BIOS. Therefore, if you buy one of these (about 100 DM here in Germany (~U$50)) you are able to do UDMA/66. c't mag uses an old ASUS TP4XE with a P100(Triton chip)with a Promise controller to do benchmarks on UDMA drives. >Tyan itself offers currently no other BIOS upgrade for this board. >If I would need a BIOS upgrade, is there another possibility >to upgrade my BIOS ? Or do I need BIOS upgrades from my board >manufacturer ? There are in normal cases only BIOS upgrades from the mobo manufacturer. But there are some third-party-companies that also do some BIOS programming for older mobos, but I fear that there will be nothing for SMP boards. Also the money they charge is sometimes more expensive than the new UDMA/66 controller... And that would be a supported piece of hardware... Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- Turning PC's into workstations ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 11:33:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cedar.ie.tusur.ru (cedar.ie.tusur.ru [212.192.122.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD46D37BF9B for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pg@ie.tusur.ru) Received: from pg.ie.tusur.ru (pg.ie.tusur.ru [212.192.122.68]) by cedar.ie.tusur.ru (8.9.3/Cedar1_MH) with SMTP id CAA99421 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 02:33:11 +0700 (TSK) (envelope-from pg@ie.tusur.ru) Message-Id: <200002201933.CAA99421@cedar.ie.tusur.ru> From: "Pavel Gubin" To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 02:35:33 +0700 (TSK) Reply-To: "Pavel Gubin" X-Mailer: (Demonstration) PMMail 2.10.1999 for OS/2 Warp 4.00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Promise Ultra66 controller Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! I've just got a Promise Ultra66 PCI IDE controller (based on PDC20262 chip) and now trying to get it up and running under 3.4-RELEASE. Unpatched 3.4 doesn't want to recognize Ultra66, and I have not found support for it in CVS tree also. So I decided to hack ide_pci.c a bit, and now Ultra66 works more or less in PIO mode, but unfortunately data corruption occurs when I trying to enable DMA :( So, there is a question: is there (or planned) any support for Ultra66 (so I am inventing a wheel)? Or, if no, maybe someone does have any tech docs about PDC20262, so I can complete a patch? Thanx in advance, Pavel Gubin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 11:41:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from devils.maquina.com (devils.maquina.com [62.229.71.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B08037BFC5 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel@maquina.com) Received: from localhost (gabriel@localhost) by devils.maquina.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA55703; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:40:33 GMT (envelope-from gabriel@maquina.com) X-Authentication-Warning: devils.maquina.com: gabriel owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:40:33 +0000 (WET) From: Jose Gabriel Marcelino To: Pavel Gubin Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 controller In-Reply-To: <200002201933.CAA99421@cedar.ie.tusur.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > So, there is a question: is there (or planned) any support for Ultra66 (so I am inventing a wheel)? Or, if no, > maybe someone does have any tech docs about PDC20262, so I can complete a patch? Promise's Ultra66 controller seems to be fully supported under FreeBSD -CURRENT using the (excellent!) ATA driver from Soren, this in PIO and DMA (UDMA66) modes. This is probably already on the 4.0-SNAPSHOT available on FreeBSD's ftp site and will show up in the coming 4.0-RELEASE. Regards Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 12:45:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6852037BF0B for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01587; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:45:21 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA80142; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:40 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Message-ID: <20000220214139.A77280@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>; from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:29:47PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Those Promise and Abit etc. Controllers come with their on BIOS. > Therefore, if you buy one of these (about 100 DM here in Germany (~U$50)) > you are able to do UDMA/66. http://www.snogard.de/ ABIT HOT ROD-66, U-DMA-66 Controller, PCI, retail, incl. Kabel 69,00 DM Is this o.k. ? -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 12:45:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C98837C014; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01582; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:45:20 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA75533; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:37:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:37:12 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Olaf Hoyer , sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Message-ID: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>; from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:29:47PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Olaf (and the others), thanks for your kind and fast response. On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:29:47PM +0100, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > But to run UDMA/66, you also need the special 80-wire cabling, Well, then I'll have to buy an 80-wire cable tomorrow as well. > but unless you are not having some more of that beasts in your > machine, there will be no big difference to UDMA/33. The Maxtor 54098U8 will be the only EIDE device in the machine. So would it be satisfactory, to run it with the on board EIDE controller ??? But you also told me, that the CPU utilization is less with UDMA/66. So ... if I want to save some CPU cycles, should I nevertheless use UDMA/66 ?! > Those Promise and Abit etc. Controllers come with their on BIOS. > Therefore, if you buy one of these (about 100 DM here in Germany (~U$50)) > you are able to do UDMA/66. Soren, what controller do you have ? I think it would be a good strategy to buy a controller, that you have yourself, since I have the feeling, that EIDE sometimes has something of "black magic" ... Is this true ??? Or is it just my personal paranoia ? ;-)) Soren, could you please tell me, what ATA controller I should buy to have a smooth migration from SCSI to EIDE ? That would be very kind ! I'd like to make the deal tomorrow if the disk is available ;-)) Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 13:50:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9367637C048; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-ra-nc1-22.netcologne.de [195.14.244.22]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13287; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:46:50 +0100 (MET) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA78939; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:47:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:47:04 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200002202147.WAA78939@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> (message from Andreas Klemm on Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:37:12 +0100) Subject: ABIT Hod Rod 66 Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Andreas! > Well, then I'll have to buy an 80-wire cable tomorrow as well. I bought an ABIT Hot Rod 66 controller two weeks ago together with a Maxtor 27 GB/7200 drive. The board offers two Ultra DMA 66 channels (= 4 devices) and is based on the HPT366 chipset. In this case you probably don't need to buy an 80-wire cable, as the package includes one such cable (for up to 2 devices). I paid DM 69 for it. Here is the related dmesg output: ata-pci0: irq 0 at device 1.1 on pci0 ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA not enabled ata-pci1: irq 15 at device 11.0 on pci0 ata-pci1: Busmastering DMA supported ata2 at 0x6300 irq 15 on ata-pci1 ata-pci2: irq 15 at device 11.1 on pci0 ata-pci2: Busmastering DMA supported ad0: ATA-5 disk at ata2 as master ad0: 26059MB (53369568 sectors), 52946 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, UDMA66 It is from a -CURRENT from January, 2nd. You might notice the ata-pci0 device, this is the built in Ultra DMA 33 controller of my Gigabyte 586S2 mother board, despite my efforts to desactivate it through the according AWARD BIOS settings. As far as I can judge, the ATA controller/hd combination seems to work under FreeBSD. Unfortunately I can't test it really because I experience the same effect here that I do when I put some load on my Audio PCI soundcard - when putting load on the Hot Rod, sooner or later the Asus SC200 (ncr 810 based) SCSI controler goes nuts (and the system hangs on the next swap in). I have no clue why, the theories range from interrupt problems due to the SC200 not being PCI 2.1 compliant to some flaw in my motherboard. Thus I decided to buy a new SCSI controller. I looked for a DAWICONTROL first, but Stefan Esser pointed me to Tekram. Because of their FreeBSD support I bought the Tekram DC-390F. World is building in the background now and when this is done, I will change the SCSI controller and hope to have the troubles resolved. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 14:18: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D7D37BF9B; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-ra-nc1-22.netcologne.de [195.14.244.22]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA15546; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:15:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA96608; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:15:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:15:21 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200002202215.XAA96608@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000220214139.A77280@titan.klemm.gtn.com> (message from Andreas Klemm on Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:41:40 +0100) Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000220214139.A77280@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > http://www.snogard.de/ > ABIT HOT ROD-66, U-DMA-66 Controller, PCI, retail, incl. Kabel > 69,00 DM I bought that one there. Snogard is 30 bike minutes away from my office. Had some mixed experiences with them so far.. They offer a Ricoh MP-7060S 6/4/24 CD-RW drive there, which I bought (bulk version) at the same day. However mine did not initialize properly after power up (~2 of 3 ties). When I hunted for more recent firmware on the RICOH pages I found out that my drive was not a MP-7060S, but a RW-7060S! The firmware update from 1.2 to 1.7 thus rejected that drive. email to Ricoh customer support yielded that I got an OEM drive, and for these I have to contact the OEM manufacturer. In my opinion "OEM" == not having the Ricoh label on the front and "bulk" == out of the box, not package, no extras. I then phoned Snogard for the opening times and was pissed when I arrived to find out that customer support closed an half hour earlier. More, the sales droids pointed me to sign that said that I can only exchange stuff immediatle within 7 days - no word on this on the back of the bill. :( Next day I went there again to exchange the drive. After a fruitless argument about bulk vs OEM (these guys cleverly did only write "7060S" on the bill and not "MP7060S" or "RW7060S") I decided to not ask for a refund (which would cost me 10%) but to deliver it in for replacement. I still wait for that one. On the other hand, I bought the Tekram SCSI controler and a Mustek 1200 CP Scanner (no idea if this one works with FreeBSD and the parallel port driver :) at the ATELCO shop in the inner city of Cologne. This place seemed far worse than Snogard the last time I visited, but this time they really had good stuff, fair prices and sales people with clue. As they also have the "we exchange it immediatly only within 7 days" policy, I have to relativate my grudges against Snogard a bit. My resume so far is that these discounters have to be approached with a good bit of paranoia. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 15:27: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E1A37BFCD for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA15347; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:26:20 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000221002310.0099c8c0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:26:58 +0100 To: Andreas Klemm From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000220214139.A77280@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 21:41 20.02.00 +0100, you wrote: >> Those Promise and Abit etc. Controllers come with their on BIOS. >> Therefore, if you buy one of these (about 100 DM here in Germany (~U$50)) >> you are able to do UDMA/66. > >http://www.snogard.de/ >ABIT HOT ROD-66, U-DMA-66 Controller, PCI, retail, incl. Kabel >69,00 DM > Hi! Well, if you want to buy there, ok... But do not say I have not warned you before- Snogard is a real troublemaker, with lotsa people with bad experience from them. I personally prefer Alternate as mail-order... Also, in mail-order you have to be prepared for at least 25 DM s&h... BTW: in other thread I just read that the Promise could/would probably do better due to support... Do not know about the chipset the Abit uses... Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- Turning PC's into workstations ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 15:34:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1358D37C027 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA17904; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:34:33 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000221002928.009bb930@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:34:55 +0100 To: Andreas Klemm From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> But to run UDMA/66, you also need the special 80-wire cabling, > >Well, then I'll have to buy an 80-wire cable tomorrow as well. Hi! Well, only needed when using a separate controller like the Promise. If you decide to take the on-board controller than you could use every "el cheapo" 40-pin cable... > >> but unless you are not having some more of that beasts in your >> machine, there will be no big difference to UDMA/33. > >The Maxtor 54098U8 will be the only EIDE device in the machine. >So would it be satisfactory, to run it with the on board EIDE >controller ??? But you also told me, that the CPU utilization >is less with UDMA/66. So ... if I want to save some CPU cycles, >should I nevertheless use UDMA/66 ?! Well, if you use it as single drive, even the difference in CPU cycles won't probably make up significantly in user-visible manner. Yes, for benchmarks, it would show a slightly faster operation, but in real life, there should be no real improvement. Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- Turning PC's into workstations ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 21 1:44:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B4437BE84; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA95712; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:44:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200002210944.KAA95712@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios In-Reply-To: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Feb 20, 2000 09:37:12 pm" To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:44:15 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (Olaf Hoyer), sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > The Maxtor 54098U8 will be the only EIDE device in the machine. > So would it be satisfactory, to run it with the on board EIDE > controller ??? But you also told me, that the CPU utilization > is less with UDMA/66. So ... if I want to save some CPU cycles, > should I nevertheless use UDMA/66 ?! There is no significant, ie mesurable difference when you only have one device attached, ATA33 and ATA66 will do the job with no user notisable difference. There are also other reasons to stick with ATA33, _alot_ of the disks claiming to do ATA66 actually dont. This is true for some WDC, Quantum and Maxtors disks. The problem is that they simply lockup when hit by lots of requests, fast back to back. The only disk make that I havn't seen _any_ problems with are IBM... > > Those Promise and Abit etc. Controllers come with their on BIOS. > > Therefore, if you buy one of these (about 100 DM here in Germany (~U$50)) > > you are able to do UDMA/66. > > Soren, what controller do you have ? I think it would be a good strategy > to buy a controller, that you have yourself, since I have the feeling, that > EIDE sometimes has something of "black magic" ... I have a pletoria of Promise and HPT366 based controllers, all of them work just dandy. > Soren, could you please tell me, what ATA controller I should buy > to have a smooth migration from SCSI to EIDE ? That would be very kind ! If you only have one disk, and the motherboard can do ATA33 use that. If you need more than two disks, then buy an extra Promise or HPT366 based (ie Abit, SIIG) controller. And if you want a disk that is garantied to work, buy an IBM preferably from the new DPTA series, there are blindingly fast, and they work. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 21 1:45: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF87337BF83; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:44:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA95712; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:44:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200002210944.KAA95712@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios In-Reply-To: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Feb 20, 2000 09:37:12 pm" To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:44:15 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (Olaf Hoyer), sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Andreas Klemm wrote: > The Maxtor 54098U8 will be the only EIDE device in the machine. > So would it be satisfactory, to run it with the on board EIDE > controller ??? But you also told me, that the CPU utilization > is less with UDMA/66. So ... if I want to save some CPU cycles, > should I nevertheless use UDMA/66 ?! There is no significant, ie mesurable difference when you only have one device attached, ATA33 and ATA66 will do the job with no user notisable difference. There are also other reasons to stick with ATA33, _alot_ of the disks claiming to do ATA66 actually dont. This is true for some WDC, Quantum and Maxtors disks. The problem is that they simply lockup when hit by lots of requests, fast back to back. The only disk make that I havn't seen _any_ problems with are IBM... > > Those Promise and Abit etc. Controllers come with their on BIOS. > > Therefore, if you buy one of these (about 100 DM here in Germany (~U$50)) > > you are able to do UDMA/66. > > Soren, what controller do you have ? I think it would be a good strategy > to buy a controller, that you have yourself, since I have the feeling, that > EIDE sometimes has something of "black magic" ... I have a pletoria of Promise and HPT366 based controllers, all of them work just dandy. > Soren, could you please tell me, what ATA controller I should buy > to have a smooth migration from SCSI to EIDE ? That would be very kind ! If you only have one disk, and the motherboard can do ATA33 use that. If you need more than two disks, then buy an extra Promise or HPT366 based (ie Abit, SIIG) controller. And if you want a disk that is garantied to work, buy an IBM preferably from the new DPTA series, there are blindingly fast, and they work. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 21 17:23:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A87D37B5AD for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:23:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12N3zD-0004QN-00; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:19:35 -0800 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Soren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios References: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <200002210944.KAA95712@freebsd.dk> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:19:35 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org so, when i see these problems on a maxtor on a asus p2b-ls, how can i force 33 as opposed to 66? randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 22 1: 2:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C567537B5F0 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA00398; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:02:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200002220902.KAA00398@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios In-Reply-To: from Randy Bush at "Feb 21, 2000 05:19:35 pm" To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:02:26 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Randy Bush wrote: > so, when i see these problems on a maxtor on a asus p2b-ls, how can i force > 33 as opposed to 66? For now hack the ata-dma.c code tfor the HPT to only use UDMA33. I have a generic method up my sleve, but it wont make it before 4.0... I'm very tempted to blacklist all Quantum and Maxtor drives :( -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 22 1:15: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from racine.cybercable.fr (racine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC61937B650 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:14:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 12095612 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2000 09:14:57 -0000 Received: from d122.paris-30.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.30.122]) (envelope-sender ) by racine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Feb 2000 09:14:57 -0000 Message-ID: <38B252AC.A31DAA0B@cybercable.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:11:08 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: Randy Bush , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios References: <200002220902.KAA00398@freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Randy Bush wrote: > > so, when i see these problems on a maxtor on a asus p2b-ls, how can i force > > 33 as opposed to 66? > > For now hack the ata-dma.c code tfor the HPT to only use UDMA33. > I have a generic method up my sleve, but it wont make it before 4.0... > > I'm very tempted to blacklist all Quantum and Maxtor drives :( running here with a maxtor 18G : seems to work fine (only drive on the HPT366, though) ata2-master: success setting up UDMA4 mode on HPT366 chip ad4: ATA-5 disk at ata2 as master ad4: 17418MB (35673120 sectors), 35390 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad4: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, UDMA66 ad4: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=4 cblid=1 TfH PS : is there a bench I could run / or specific tests on this combination ? > > -Søren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 22 17:52:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899E537B761 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:52:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115222>; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:52:56 +1100 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Multiport serial cards To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-Id: <00Feb23.125256est.115222@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:52:55 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm looking at using a FreeBSD box to provide remote serial console access to a number of Alpha's. (This approach being somewhat more cost-effective than DECserver 900TM's). I need to support at least 32 serial ports at 9600bps. Would anyone like to recommend 16- or 32-port cards? Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 22 18:18:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cbu.skyinet.net (ns1.cbu.skyinet.net [208.142.164.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F2C37B859 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fred@skyinet.net) Received: from skyinet.net (noc02.ilo.skyinet.net [208.150.132.2]) by ns1.cbu.skyinet.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA11251; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:18:02 +0800 Message-ID: <38B346F5.386D5DA5@skyinet.net> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:33:25 +0800 From: "Frederick R. Doncillo" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards References: <00Feb23.125256est.115222@border.alcanet.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------B1213CA62BAC834332457EF1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------B1213CA62BAC834332457EF1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You may try to check this site... http://www.comtrol.com/ Fred. -- "An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold..." Peter Jeremy wrote: > I'm looking at using a FreeBSD box to provide remote serial console > access to a number of Alpha's. (This approach being somewhat more > cost-effective than DECserver 900TM's). > > I need to support at least 32 serial ports at 9600bps. > > Would anyone like to recommend 16- or 32-port cards? > > Peter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message --------------B1213CA62BAC834332457EF1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You may try to check this site...  http://www.comtrol.com/
 

Fred.
--
"An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't
 buy that inch of time with an inch of gold..."
 

Peter Jeremy wrote:

I'm looking at using a FreeBSD box to provide remote serial console
access to a number of Alpha's.  (This approach being somewhat more
cost-effective than DECserver 900TM's).

I need to support at least 32 serial ports at 9600bps.

Would anyone like to recommend 16- or 32-port cards?

Peter

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  --------------B1213CA62BAC834332457EF1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 22 19:57:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b058.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EE137B8B0 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA19776; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:57:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:57:24 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Nowlin To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards In-Reply-To: <00Feb23.125256est.115222@border.alcanet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I need to support at least 32 serial ports at 9600bps. > > Would anyone like to recommend 16- or 32-port cards? I use both the Comtrol and Cyclades cards... Several 8-port Cyclades boards, and quite a few 8- and 16-port Rocketports. One machine has 64 serial ports in it, and it runs them at full (115200) speed constantly... mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 22 20:10:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cbu.skyinet.net (ns1.cbu.skyinet.net [208.142.164.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A5637B843 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fred@skyinet.net) Received: from skyinet.net (noc02.ilo.skyinet.net [208.150.132.2]) by ns1.cbu.skyinet.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13819; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:10:08 +0800 Message-ID: <38B36133.A158A8A0@skyinet.net> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:25:23 +0800 From: "Frederick R. Doncillo" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org as it suit your needs.. and pls thank also for your future espansion if there is any..., :-) Mike Nowlin wrote: > > I need to support at least 32 serial ports at 9600bps. > > > > Would anyone like to recommend 16- or 32-port cards? fred. -- "An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 23 12:15:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC99F37B9D1 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:15:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA23304; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:15:19 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA17185; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:15:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:15:13 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: separate udma66 controller possible, when only having udma33 bios Message-ID: <20000223201512.A15930@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <200002220902.KAA00398@freebsd.dk> <38B252AC.A31DAA0B@cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38B252AC.A31DAA0B@cybercable.fr>; from herbelot@cybercable.fr on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:11:08AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:11:08AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Soren Schmidt wrote: > PS : is there a bench I could run / or specific tests on this > combination ? bonnie -s 100 If that works, you lucky one ;-) But with UDMA33 it works fine now here... Only remaining problems see -current mailinglist.... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 23 12:21: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6F9F37BA09 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuro@onlinemusic.com) Received: (qmail 1156 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2000 20:20:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 1142 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2000 20:20:51 -0000 Received: from vali.nordicdms.com (HELO vali) (207.21.168.130) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2000 20:20:51 -0000 Message-ID: <006801bf7e3b$7a80e0e0$82a815cf@nordicdms.com> From: "Ryan R. Tharp" To: Cc: Subject: Dual network cards Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:20:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0065_01BF7DF8.6C221E80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01BF7DF8.6C221E80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would like to set up a freebsd box with as much network bandwidth as = possible. It connects to an HP 10/100 switch that has FEC (Fast = EtherChannel). I'm hoping I can throw 2 nics in the box. 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------=_NextPart_000_0065_01BF7DF8.6C221E80-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 23 14:54:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.norlight.com (mail.norlight.com [207.170.3.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9B137B53C for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:54:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from HRyu@norlight.com) Received: from lotus.norlight.com (lotus [89.87.145.18]) by mail.norlight.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17157 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:54:25 -0600 Subject: SMART-2SL support? To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2b December 16, 1999 Message-ID: From: "Hyunseog Ryu/Brookfield/Norlight" Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:54:27 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on Lotus/Norlight(Release 5.0.2b |December 16, 1999) at 02/23/2000 04:54:25 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, there I'm somewhat confusing whether FreeBSD support Compaq SMART-2SL SCSI RAID Adapter or not. Is it DPT compatability product? If FreeBSD can support Compaq SMART-2SL card, which version of FreeBSD do I have to use? Please let me know. Hyun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hyunseog Ryu Network Engineer/Applications Engineering Norlight Telecommunications, Inc. 275 North Corporate Drive Brookfield, WI 53045-5818 Tel. +1.262.792.7965 Fax. +1.262.792.7733 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 23 22:59:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lilzcvp.liwest.at (lilzcvp.liwest.at [212.33.32.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8619E37BA11 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r.haider@liwest.at) Received: from [212.33.32.221] by lilzcvp.relay.liwest.at (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB8573.63.b914fe78) with ESMTP id lguxaaaa for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:59:13 +0000 Received: by OFFICE1_LIWEST with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:57:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1F879C64A1A7D211B0F10004AC4C07FC119CF3@OFFICE1_LIWEST> From: Haider Roland To: 'Hyunseog Ryu/Brookfield/Norlight' Cc: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: AW: SMART-2SL support? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:57:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi ! gone through that just a few days ago. I set up a proliant 3000 with a SMART-2 and (mad enough) a ASUS board with a=20 SMART 3200. First of all, you have to configure the controller in a Compaq box, but then it also works anywhere else. You just have to reboot to initiate an array-rebuild. Now for the drivers: Matthew Dodd did a great=20 job with the driver. It's in -current and will be in 4.0-RELEASE. I don't know about -RELEASE but as far as the pre-release snapshots are concerned, there are a few gotcha's. First, and pretty obvious, you have to recompile the kernel as support is not in GENERIC. Then i had to install on a spare (non array) disk to get the array recognised. (I copied my custom kernel to the boot floppy, but sysinstall didn't see the logical disks on the array.) Booting from that disk sysinstall sees the array drives as wdX and you can install on them. After removing the spare disk i was able to boot from the array, althoug the root partition is wd0e in my case and i have to specify it manually at the boot-promt. Sofar i'm verry happy, and i just wait for the release to complete the installation and put the systems in production. Cheers, Roland > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Hyunseog Ryu/Brookfield/Norlight [SMTP:HRyu@norlight.com] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2000 23:54 > An: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Betreff: SMART-2SL support? >=20 > Hi, there >=20 > I'm somewhat confusing whether FreeBSD support Compaq SMART-2SL SCSI = RAID > Adapter or not. > Is it DPT compatability product? > If FreeBSD can support Compaq SMART-2SL card, which version of = FreeBSD do > I > have to use? > Please let me know. >=20 > Hyun >=20 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Hyunseog Ryu > Network Engineer/Applications Engineering > Norlight Telecommunications, Inc. > 275 North Corporate Drive > Brookfield, WI 53045-5818 > Tel. +1.262.792.7965 > Fax. +1.262.792.7733 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 2:33:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from orhi.sarenet.es (orhi.sarenet.es [192.148.167.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1211037BB6F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:33:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Received: from sarenet.es (sollube.sarenet.es [192.148.167.16]) by orhi.sarenet.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC254D8AD for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:27:08 +0000 (WET) Received: from sarenet.es (charon.telion.net [194.30.71.147]) by sarenet.es (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24134 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:25:13 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <38B50732.6758295F@sarenet.es> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:25:54 +0100 From: Borja Marcos Organization: TELION S.A. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: health monitoring in GA-71XE motherboard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have a Gigabyte GA-71XE motherboard (Athlon CPU) and the monitoring chip (Winbond 83782) doesn't seem to be supported under FreeBSD. Is anyone working on it? Is it difficult to update the drivers so that it can be recognised? The datasheets for this chip and the AMD chipset are readily available in the WWW. Borja. -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjamar@sarenet.es 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * borjam@uninet.edu SPAIN * borjam@well.com *********************************************************************** --- FreeBSD, turning PCs into workstations To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 7:30:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4782F37BDCB for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA48042; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:30:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:30:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Haider Roland Cc: "'Hyunseog Ryu/Brookfield/Norlight'" , "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: AW: SMART-2SL support? In-Reply-To: <1F879C64A1A7D211B0F10004AC4C07FC119CF3@OFFICE1_LIWEST> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Haider Roland wrote: > Now for the drivers: Matthew Dodd did a great > job with the driver. It's in -current and will be in > 4.0-RELEASE. Jonathan Lemon wrote the driver thats in 4.0 I've got a few changes in the pipe but they will show up post 4.0. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 7:41:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from balrog.rt.ru (balrog.rt.ru [195.161.0.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679C037BE04 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@rt.ru) Received: from rt.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balrog.rt.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29324 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:41:13 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dima@rt.ru) Message-ID: <38B55119.E89615C9@rt.ru> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:41:13 +0300 From: "Dmitry S. Rzhavin" Organization: Rostelecom Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-20000103-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compaq SmartArray 3200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does FreeBSD have/planning support for Compaq Smart Array 3200 controller? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 7:50:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.quansoo.com (defiant.quansoo.com [63.66.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0DE37BD70 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) Received: from localhost (cgriffiths@localhost) by defiant.quansoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01319; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:50:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: defiant.quansoo.com: cgriffiths owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:50:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Griffiths" To: "Dmitry S. Rzhavin" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq SmartArray 3200 In-Reply-To: <38B55119.E89615C9@rt.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes it already supports this controller and I have 7 Compaq Proliant 1850R Servers with this controller running at my site. Chris On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > Does FreeBSD have/planning support for Compaq Smart Array 3200 controller? > > --- Christopher T. Griffiths Engineering Department Quansoo Group Inc. cgriffiths@quansoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 8: 6:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from balrog.rt.ru (balrog.rt.ru [195.161.0.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896D637BF02 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:06:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@rt.ru) Received: from rt.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balrog.rt.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA30665; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:05:47 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dima@rt.ru) Message-ID: <38B556DB.3035D5B9@rt.ru> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:05:47 +0300 From: "Dmitry S. Rzhavin" Organization: Rostelecom Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-20000103-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher T. Griffiths" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq SmartArray 3200 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > Yes it already supports this controller and I have 7 Compaq Proliant 1850R > Servers with this controller running at my site. > > Chris > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > > > Does FreeBSD have/planning support for Compaq Smart Array 3200 controller? > > > > > > --- > Christopher T. Griffiths > Engineering Department > Quansoo Group Inc. > cgriffiths@quansoo.com What bios version and what FreeBSD version do I need? I tried last 4.0-curr but Free did not find this controller at boot time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 8:10:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.quansoo.com (defiant.quansoo.com [63.66.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C58637C178 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) Received: from localhost (cgriffiths@localhost) by defiant.quansoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01544; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:09:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: defiant.quansoo.com: cgriffiths owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:09:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Griffiths" To: "Dmitry S. Rzhavin" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq SmartArray 3200 In-Reply-To: <38B556DB.3035D5B9@rt.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You need to build a custom kernel with the following: # Compaq Intelligent Disk Array Controller # controller ida0 at isa? bio irq ? vector idaintr disk id0 at ida0 drive 0 disk id1 at ida0 drive 1 disk id2 at ida0 drive 2 disk id3 at ida0 drive 3 disk id4 at ida0 drive 4 disk id5 at ida0 drive 5 You can just add this to the Generic kernel then config and build it. Then you need to gzip and add it to the kernel boot floppy. It will then recognize the array. Very nice hardware. Chris On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > > > Yes it already supports this controller and I have 7 Compaq Proliant 1850R > > Servers with this controller running at my site. > > > > Chris > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > > > > > Does FreeBSD have/planning support for Compaq Smart Array 3200 controller? > > > > > > > > > > --- > > Christopher T. Griffiths > > Engineering Department > > Quansoo Group Inc. > > cgriffiths@quansoo.com > > What bios version and what FreeBSD version do I need? > I tried last 4.0-curr but Free did not find this controller > at boot time. > --- Christopher T. Griffiths Engineering Department Quansoo Group Inc. cgriffiths@quansoo.com Phone: (302) 777-4141 Fax: (302) 777-4142 Mobile: (302) 521-3436 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 8:15:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from balrog.rt.ru (balrog.rt.ru [195.161.0.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE8037BB61 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:15:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dima@rt.ru) Received: from rt.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balrog.rt.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA30693; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:14:40 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dima@rt.ru) Message-ID: <38B558F0.8935555F@rt.ru> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:14:40 +0300 From: "Dmitry S. Rzhavin" Organization: Rostelecom Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-20000103-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher T. Griffiths" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq SmartArray 3200 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > You need to build a custom kernel with the following: > > # Compaq Intelligent Disk Array Controller > # > controller ida0 at isa? bio irq ? vector idaintr > disk id0 at ida0 drive 0 > disk id1 at ida0 drive 1 > disk id2 at ida0 drive 2 > disk id3 at ida0 drive 3 > disk id4 at ida0 drive 4 > disk id5 at ida0 drive 5 > Yuo mean FreeBSD 3.4? > You can just add this to the Generic kernel then config and build it. > > Then you need to gzip and add it to the kernel boot floppy. > > It will then recognize the array. > > Very nice hardware. > > Chris > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > > > "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > > > > > Yes it already supports this controller and I have 7 Compaq Proliant 1850R > > > Servers with this controller running at my site. > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > > > > > > > Does FreeBSD have/planning support for Compaq Smart Array 3200 controller? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Christopher T. Griffiths > > > Engineering Department > > > Quansoo Group Inc. > > > cgriffiths@quansoo.com > > > > What bios version and what FreeBSD version do I need? > > I tried last 4.0-curr but Free did not find this controller > > at boot time. > > > > --- > Christopher T. Griffiths > Engineering Department > Quansoo Group Inc. > cgriffiths@quansoo.com > Phone: (302) 777-4141 > Fax: (302) 777-4142 > Mobile: (302) 521-3436 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 24 8:24:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from defiant.quansoo.com (defiant.quansoo.com [63.66.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CEC237BC76 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:24:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) Received: from localhost (cgriffiths@localhost) by defiant.quansoo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01678; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:23:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cgriffiths@quansoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: defiant.quansoo.com: cgriffiths owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:23:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher T. Griffiths" To: "Dmitry S. Rzhavin" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq SmartArray 3200 In-Reply-To: <38B558F0.8935555F@rt.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes you need to have 3.4 or greater. Chris On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > > > You need to build a custom kernel with the following: > > > > # Compaq Intelligent Disk Array Controller > > # > > controller ida0 at isa? bio irq ? vector idaintr > > disk id0 at ida0 drive 0 > > disk id1 at ida0 drive 1 > > disk id2 at ida0 drive 2 > > disk id3 at ida0 drive 3 > > disk id4 at ida0 drive 4 > > disk id5 at ida0 drive 5 > > > > Yuo mean FreeBSD 3.4? > > > You can just add this to the Generic kernel then config and build it. > > > > Then you need to gzip and add it to the kernel boot floppy. > > > > It will then recognize the array. > > > > Very nice hardware. > > > > Chris > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > > > > > "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes it already supports this controller and I have 7 Compaq Proliant 1850R > > > > Servers with this controller running at my site. > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dmitry S. Rzhavin wrote: > > > > > > > > > Does FreeBSD have/planning support for Compaq Smart Array 3200 controller? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > Christopher T. Griffiths > > > > Engineering Department > > > > Quansoo Group Inc. > > > > cgriffiths@quansoo.com > > > > > > What bios version and what FreeBSD version do I need? > > > I tried last 4.0-curr but Free did not find this controller > > > at boot time. > > > > > > > --- > > Christopher T. Griffiths > > Engineering Department > > Quansoo Group Inc. > > cgriffiths@quansoo.com > > Phone: (302) 777-4141 > > Fax: (302) 777-4142 > > Mobile: (302) 521-3436 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > --- Christopher T. Griffiths Engineering Department Quansoo Group Inc. cgriffiths@quansoo.com Phone: (302) 777-4141 Fax: (302) 777-4142 Mobile: (302) 521-3436 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 25 13:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230B837B884; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:16:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id WAA09688; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:11:20 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id UAA84011; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:15:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:15:59 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <200002251915.UAA84011@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: marc@freebeastie.org Subject: Re: fxtv (?) freezes box X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.multimedia In-Reply-To: Organization: home Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article marc@freebeastie.org writes: >A Studio PCTV Rave card (848A chip) is doing fine with fxtv on a dual >pentium pro (200 MHz) with a lot of RAM (192MB) running 4.0. > >I just tried another one in a Pentium 166 MMX with only 32 MB. It runs >fine. As soon as I try to change from X to a console (Alt-Ctrl-F2), >which works fine otherwise, the box freezes: blank screen. Sound keeps >running... Not pingable anymore. Nothing gets it alive again, except >the power button. Btw... i'm thinking about getting a new box at home and want put a bt878 card in too (besides a `sym', a `fxp', a pci soundcard (sb128?) and possibly an additional 2-channel pci ide card, oh and of course a video card too (which ones work well with a bt878 at have 3D support under X?)) any recommendations for a board/chipset that would work with that many busmastering devices? (work as in not freeze/crash/panic under load or like in this case when switching vtys...) are there athlon boards that are any good? TIA, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message