From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 13:33:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F5337BFE6 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsikora@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.2.168.186]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000509203227.XRSX18096.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 9 May 2000 13:32:27 -0700 Message-ID: <39187630.B67237B8@home.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:33:52 -0400 From: Ted Sikora Reply-To: tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Organization: Jtl Development X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox , "current@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Abit BP6 - UDMA66 and non IBM disks References: <20000509041401.F25972@cs.rice.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alan Cox wrote: > > About two days ago, I tested a machine with four IDE drives > each on its own cable as the master. All four drives were: > > ad0: 29311MB [59554/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA66 > > I used the motherboard controller to support two of the drives. It was a > > atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 > > and a Highpoint-based ATA66 controller for the other two drives. The > Highpoint locked up with the "resetting devices" message as soon > as the system was stressed. I replaced the Highpoint controller > with a Promise ATA66 and didn't see any problems after that. (I've > never seen any problems with the Maxtor's on the Intel ATA66 controller > either.) > > In summary, same disks, three different controllers, problems only > occur with the Highpoint controller. (I believe the Abit BP6 uses > the Highpoint controller.) > > I use the BP6 with FreeBSD-current and Slackware. The Highpoint works great with FreeBSD however I have a problem with the Maxtor running fsck under Linux. This has occurred since the beginning of support for the Highpoint. I have used Hedricks patches and nagged him about problems but the only remaining issue is fsck. It works perfectly with the PIIX controller. Benchmarks sizzle with the Maxtor/Highpoint almost 24MB/sec so the tradeoff is acceptable(to me). The best the IBM could muster was 20MB/sec. The Maxtor/PIIX runs a little over 19MB/sec occasionally hitting 20MB/sec. Regards, -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message