Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:38:24 +0100 (CET) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More on Dell 600SC server Message-ID: <200212262238.gBQMcOp1076672@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021226121054.00b23640@localhost>
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It seems Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:49 AM 12/26/2002, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > >dmesg ? > > I don't have all of it, but I do have a relevant excerpt. > When you try to boot with two drives on the primary cable, > you see the following: > > ... > ad0: <WDC WD 200BB-18DEA0/05.03ED05> ATA-5 disk at ata0-master > ad0: 19073 MB (39062500 sectors), 38752 C, 16 H, 63 S, 512 B > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, BIOSDMA > ad0: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode-5 cblid=1 > ad1: scuuess setting WDMA2 on generic chip > Creating DISK ad1 > ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. > > and then nothing. The machine hangs. With one drive on the > cable, it's OK. Both drives are WD drives, jumpered to "auto." What do you mean by drives jumpered to "auto", is that what the manual calls "cable select" ? :) Anyhow that might not be the problem, the unknown chipset probably is... > >what chipset is in there ? my guess is a newer ServerWorks > >as they have a third interface onchip IIRC. > > Yes, I believe it's a ServerWorks chipset. > > >If they are that inexpensive ship me one and I'll make it work :) > > They start at $600 US, which is inexpensive for a server with > ECC RAM, etc. Trouble is, we have to put this one into service. > Do you have a way of getting a look at one? Or if I gave you an > account on one, could you snoop around from a distance? $600 US is out of my league for doing driver development, but if you can get me a full dmesg and the output of 'pciconf -l' I'll see what I can do, you'll have to do the testing of cause if I can come up with support for the chip in there... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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