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Subject: Re: ServerWorks CSB6 and SiI 0680
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"John Soderberg" <johns@newebmail.com> writes:

> Hello folks: 
>
> I need some ATA/IDE driver work, wrt chipsets 0680 or CSB6.
>
> Otherwise I shall have to move to Linux, and golly -- I just
> perfer FreeBSD.  
>
> I'm on some IBM blades, (which use the ServerWorks CSB6 and SiI 0680   
> chips,) and have a single Intel P4 as the main CPU processor.
>
> I'm running FBSD 6.1.
>
> After some detective work, it seems that the FreeBSD
> ATA (or IDE disk driver) may have been having
> problems, so I jotted down the specific Chipset we
> have in blades 1-5 and proceeded to investigate...
>
> The chipsets we have are:
> SiI 0680 and ServerWorks CSB6.
>
> There are 2 chipsets and what is happening is that
> the Primary IDE channel
> or Channel 0 is the SiI (Silicon Image) and the
> secondary channel or Channel 1 is the Serverworks,
> which explains why 3 of the blades are running as
> UDMA100 instead of UDMA133
>
> Here's the notification note fr Mar06 telling us taht
> we have "buggy" chipsets, both of which are listed by
> name:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.hardware/browse_frm/thread/e89378cb8690f2d7/8ea5bfc25b9ab90a?lnk=st&q=Serverworks+CSB6+group%3A*freebsd*&rnum=34&hl=en#8ea5bfc25b9ab90a

Please read that note again.
I believe that the mention of the CSB6 chipset is just the existing
support note in the manual for ata(4).  So I don't think that explains
anything of your issues.  

You could always talk to SOS@ about the observed symptoms...