From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 05:06:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03148 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 05:06:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03129 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 05:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA16593; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:06:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199901211306.OAA16593@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller In-Reply-To: <19990121234651.F5377@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Jan 21, 1999 11:46:51 pm" To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:06:22 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems David Dawes wrote: > > That didn't improve things, but with the patch I got lots of messages > like the following (for a disk attached to the onboard PIIX4): > > wd1: DMA failure, DMA status 0 > > (The box isn't SMP.) Hmm, and it is an uptodate -current system ?? Just use this part then: Index: wd.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/wd.c,v retrieving revision 1.186 diff -u -r1.186 wd.c --- wd.c 1999/01/17 05:46:24 1.186 +++ wd.c 1999/01/19 18:29:23 @@ -350,9 +350,11 @@ goto reset_ok; #endif DELAY(RECOVERYTIME); +/* Allow atapi only channels to work proberly SOS if (wdreset(du) != 0) { goto nodevice; } +*/ reset_ok: /* execute a controller only command */ > >I also run the card without its BIOS, as that tends to get in the way. > >I think the FastTrack is just an Ultra/33 with another BIOS chip on it. > > I'll try pulling the BIOS tomorrow. We didn't get this card for it's > RAID features anyway. That helped me in a lot if situations, but performance wont be as good as we seem not to initialize the chip(s)... I have the specsheets somewhere if anybody is interested... - Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message