From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 19:00:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA2116A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [212.104.129.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546A143D58 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@ninjalabs.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EDD406734; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23164-01-7; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk (unknown [82.152.95.185]) by mra02.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B554740639E; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Smith To: Maseed In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:01:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1100804467.34083.6.camel@shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3112a SATA Controller, current status X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:00:55 -0000 Hi, > I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my system that has an onboard > Silicon Image sil3112a SATA controller and a Western Digital Raptor > WD740 74GB HD, for a few months now, with no luck. Pain. > First I tried 5.2.1, which installs fine but starts to spew DMA > timeout messages when put under any kind of HD related stress and > eventually the system becomes totally unusable. > I tried a second time with 5.3-BETA7, the behaviour was exactly the same. Just to help things along, I have a SIL3112 controller on my workstation (Asus A7n8x-e platform).. relevant bits dmesg:- atapci0: port 0xa400-0xa40f,0xa000-0xa003,0x9c00-0x9c07,0x9800-0x9803,0x9400-0x9407 mem 0xe8004000-0xe80041ff irq 18 at device 11.0 on pci1 ad4: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150 uname:- FreeBSD shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 14 08:29:40 GMT 2004 chris@shodan.ninjalabs.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SHODAN i386 Works fine here. Could this be a DMA / IRQ conflict on your particular configuration? I have had problems with Raptor disks on a supermicro platform (ICH5 controller) under Windows. Could it be the disks? Cheers, Chris Smith http://www.ninjalabs.co.uk/