Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:31:21 -0400 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20130718203121.GA2135@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <51E84FDA.3010607@reynoldsnet.org> References: <51E73AA9.5030004@reynoldsnet.org> <20130718004854.GC2264@glenbarber.us> <51E765D3.8090801@reynoldsnet.org> <20130718154908.GD1945@glenbarber.us> <51E84FDA.3010607@reynoldsnet.org>
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--yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:28:10PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > On 7/18/2013 8:49 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:49:39PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > >>today. I will most definitely report back any findings. Thanks for > >>your reply! > >> > >John, in addition to suggestions/replies from others, can you also try > >the 10.0-CURRENT snapshot? In particular, if your problem continues > >with a SATA drive, I am curious if the problem still exists in head/. > > > > http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/ > > > >Thanks. >=20 > Thanks to Glen and Steve and all those who replied to my initial > posting. I am quite pleased after having been "figuratively gone" > from (but still running) FreeBSD for coming up on 2 years (hey--when > it's so rock solid, it's easy when you don't have to ask questions > :) that i can come back to these lists and still find lots of people > willing to help! You guys (and gals) are awesome! >=20 > Anyway, it seems I have solved my problems with this new hardware. > There was really two issues I bumped into. After installing 9.1-R I > saw this "timeout" problem to ahcich1 device and it would "hang" for > about 5 minutes then continue to boot. Then I tried 9.2-PRE but > there the keyboard was not recognized and I kept getting infinite > "ugen0.2: <Unknown> ..... (disconnected)" errors at the install > screen. One person said to fiddle in the BIOS with the USB settings. > I went into the BIOS and disabled "Intel USB 3.0 Mode" support (this > is a very new motherboard with USB 3.0). That fixed the issue! For > those curious about -current, I also tried to install that and it > experienced the same USB problems until I disabled this 3.0 mode. >=20 > Once I got past that and installed 9.2-PRE again, I let it timeout > again during boot. Then I looked at the dmesg output much more > closely than I could have during the boot from DVD. It turns out > that I only THOUGHT it was a timeout to the SSD. The Intel Series > 520 SSD was NOT the issue. I was getting a timeout on ahcich1 which > from the dmesg output was my DVD burner! The SSD was on ahcich5. The > only difference here is that by sheer happenstance, I connected the > SSD to the SATA port owned by the Intel Z87 (Lynx Point) controller. > The DVD burner (which is probably 5 years old) was hooked to > ASRock's own "ASMedia ASM1061" controller. Apparently this > controller doesn't play well with my older DVD burner. I switched > ports and put both on the Intel controller and BOOM! Success! No > timeouts, no funny business. Nothing. At this point i don't mind at > all turning off the USB 3.0 mode because I have yet to actually see > a 3.0 device in the wild and I certainly won't own one anytime soon. > :) .... so it's kind of a moot point. I'm sure the USB developers > will see this problem and tackle it in time. I'm just thrilled to be > booting on this new H/W! >=20 > Thanks again to all on the list that replied! >=20 Great to hear. Thank you for trying different suggestions, and reporting back the results. I'm glad things worked out (though, I'm still a bit worried about the xhci(4) in your case...). Glen --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJR6FCZAAoJEFJPDDeguUajJwcH/Av0lHF2ZHnr8BSEMTHdw7EF VH71tp0gVVZmQKSD3odeMu/AXyOQ1ApzicPvUQDaMaFyB5Cf3B8n9JfmcmsgAzb0 QiQTv9vATogem+v0TR73M/OjxqZ4+FdHHUHLX2f0TdBWrfIin85m4rQJooP4BW8i hC8JStgbhZyTUSqcKEFwiVuaDCt3sHK9k7ZIRixfxx47In4aWI6QOxvA3Q/tMpSw uy0lJIfRmME1/2M5aZSMpHK3bCT/jd9z8aH1ymw3fndhIudZ2QgmpuMoysWyhhC1 kX61WVrNpfDy1KD0t2SNugH3i8tWSh7g8mWS4c1kPYwiMwiWcuDQ5EWiLe+9lyQ= =sAC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--
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