Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:44:23 +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: <20090918124423.GP57060@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909161523270.737@wnk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909051749450.4756@wnk> <20090906182156.GA66161@alchemy.franken.de> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909081851001.8820@wnk> <20090909184504.GD57060@alchemy.franken.de> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909161523270.737@wnk>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:28:25PM -0500, R J wrote: > Hi Marius, > I've been using the patched driver and have moved more than 500 gigs of > data on the disk drive attached to the ata-marvell controller. > > Can you incorporate your patch into the 8.0 BETA and 7.X stable? > > It seems a very stable, well-performing driver. It has worked flawlessly > during the moves of enormous data backup and forth between the built in > fibre-channel drives and the ata-marvell attached Hitachi drive. I've updated the patch at http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/ata-marvell.c.diff slighlty based on feedback I got during review. Could you please give the new version (which has an MD5 hash of a56305fef5edb1d1510373b7e063aaab) a sanity check? Some basic transfer should be sufficient to verify it still works. If no new problem arises I'll commit the patch to head, stable/8 and stable/7. > > I wish I could say the same thing regarding the Sil3512. I still haven't > been able to go any where with that. AFAICT the "old" ata-siliconimage(4) suffers from the same bugs as ata-marvell(4) does, i.e. isn't endian clean and misses DMA synchronisation besides 64-bit DMA being broken, but isn't as straight forward to fix as ata-marvell(4) is. The new siis(4) doesn't have these bugs though, so I'd expect it to work fine. Have you talked to mav@freebsd.org regarding siis(4)? Marius
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