From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 26 14:38:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA2537B401; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:38:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-56339.0x50c6aa0a.abnxx2.customer.tele.dk [80.198.170.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF7C43F07; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@spider.deepcore.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.5/8.12.6) id gBQMcOp1076672; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:38:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soeren Schmidt Message-Id: <200212262238.gBQMcOp1076672@spider.deepcore.dk> Subject: Re: More on Dell 600SC server In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021226121054.00b23640@localhost> To: Brett Glass Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 23:38:24 +0100 (CET) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL98b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: 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