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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:03:59 +0100
From:      Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Steve Barkey <sbarkey@alexin.ca>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ATA problems on sparc64 (U5 at least)
Message-ID:  <20020330130358.A36415@skriver.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200203300901.g2U91f898738@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:01:40AM %2B0100
References:  <20020330000734.C25447@FreeBSD.org> <200203300901.g2U91f898738@freebsd.dk>

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:01:40AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote:

> It seems Jesper Skriver wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:13:01PM -0500, Steve Barkey wrote:
> >
> > > Heres a good question!
> > >
> > > I got the installation done.  Everything's working pretty well
> > > with the exception of the odd DISK ERROR I/O - my hdd is fine,
> > > must be the softupdates? Any ideas?
> >
> > I see it on my U5 too, I think it must be a bug in the ATA driver
> > with regard to either the ATA controller in these boxes, or to
> > sparc64 in general.
> >
> > atapci0: <CMD 646 ATA controller> port 0xc00020-0xc0002f,0xc00018-0xc0001b,0xc00010-0xc00017,0xc00008-0xc0000b,0xc00000-0xc00007 irq 32 at device 3.0 on pci2
> > ata2: at 0xc00000 on atapci0
> > ata3: at 0xc00010 on atapci0
> > ad0: 8693MB <ST39111A> [17662/16/63] at ata2-master WDMA2
> > acd0: CDROM <CRD-8322B> at ata3-master PIO4
> > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > ata2: resetting devices .. done
> > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > ata2: resetting devices .. done
> > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > ata2: resetting devices .. done
> > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> > ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode
> > ata2: resetting devices .. done
> 
> From when are the sources you used for this ? It should work or at
> least it did on the U5 I tried it on at work (that was the 0321 dist).

This is the 0320 distribution, but I can try building a new kernel from
the source available at cvsup10

> However there are something else thats not right, I dont get the
> transferrates I should on my Netra (which has a ATA66 Acer chip),
> however the setup of the Acer chip is OK it seems, but I suspect
> interrupt delivery to be extremely slow...

/Jesper

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