From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 26 2:52:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from keep.scn.ru (SCN-SibInet.sibinet.ru [213.24.217.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE17B37B41F; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from scn.ru (alx.sc.ten [10.0.7.13]) by keep.scn.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA86845; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:52:54 +0700 (KRAT) (envelope-from alx@scn.ru) Message-ID: <3C021D7C.773ABAFE@scn.ru> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:46:20 +0700 From: "Alex N. Zhuravlev" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Promise FastTrak TX2v2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------msF38001164D588AE78F3A68B8" 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 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------msF38001164D588AE78F3A68B8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi ! Sorry for crosspost - it's very urgent. Is there any possibility to use subject hardware in Raid 1 mode with FreeBSD 4.4-Stable ? If yes answer please in details and directly - I am currently out of list. Thanks, Alex N. 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Here are the very strange symptoms I am experiencing: 1) The system will not boot from a boot floppy (I have tried a few different boot floppies including Linux/Win98 ones which they all work in other machines). My BIOS (AMIBIOS) complains that it cannot find a boot record in the floppy). The boot sequence set in my BIOS is floppy->cdrom->hard disk. When I disable booting from hard disk and cdrom then it keeps prompting me for inserting another floppy with a boot record. Booting from my CDROM or hard disk works fine! In any case, I have not change any settings in BIOS since it was last working.. 2) I am not able to read or write a floppy while in FreeBSD (version 4.3). Using mtools the lights comes on but I keep waiting. Mounting /dev/fd0 has a similar problem and keep reporting errors periodically. Under no circumstances I am able to read or write a floppy (I tried the GENERIC kernel as well). HOWEVER, and while in Linux (Debian potato) read and write in a floppy works absolutely fine! My system is able to boot Windows98 as well (for my job purposes only!) and there I cannot write any floppy as well (but I am only able to list the files in a floppy something which I cannot do in FreeBSD). 3) I have tried a brand new drive and a different IDE cable as well and the symptoms are identical. The floppy was working a few weeks ago. 4) I 've tried all the above with a very bare system (just the hard disk/memory/graphics card) and still I have the same problems. I started thinking that it might have to do something with a BIOS virus but then why under Linux it works fine? (and why I am able to boot from a CDROM and the hard disk). Has anyone any ideas on this? Any help will be appreciated. My system specs are: Motherboard: Tyan 1832 (Tiger 100) with AMIBIOS 1.16a Dual Intel Pentium 3 (500Mhz) (rest of specs not so relevant as I mentioned above that I tried the floppy with the very bare system as well). Cheers Dimitris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 27 16:13:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21F1E37B41C for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.184) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 00:13:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:19:32 -0500 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd hardware Subject: SoundBlaster Live! Message-Id: <20011127191932.30523fd2.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 i'm thinking of getting a SoundBlaster Live! soundcard.....probably the mp3 version but maybe the x-gamer. anyway, how well does it work with freebsd? i would imagine that at least it has basic support. hows the advanced features though? will i get much difference in the quality of my music? and if i ever get my dvd's to play in bsd how is the surround sound drivers? basically can anyone recommend buying or not buying this card? thanks _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 27 17:41: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (operamail.infinite.com [199.29.68.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22D537B416 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:41:01 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Tue, 27 Nov 01 20:40:59 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: leegold Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:40:59 -0500 From: leegold To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: device names and identifiers Message-ID: <3C15D695@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 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 Here's a question I've had for a long time about devices: eg. For the same piece of hardware, let's say a sound card there a three (3) identifiers: pcm (this id is in the kernel file) sbc0 (this id is in the dmesg output) snd0 (this id is in the /dev directory) Whaz up w/this? They all are for, or support the same piece of hardware. What each one's purpose? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 7:36:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from savvyworld.net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F1D37B417; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by savvyworld.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fASFadO82548; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 64.173.182.155 ( [64.173.182.155]) as user eculp@SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:36:39 -0800 Message-ID: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:36:39 -0800 From: Edwin Culp To: hardware@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: fnord-430/SuperMicro P3TDE6/ServerWorks SS III HE Super LIght MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 64.173.182.155 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 I just bought a fnord 430 with a SuperMicro P3TDE6 motherboard with the ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Super Light chipset. It has 2 - 1G PC133 RG DIMM C3 128X72 VR Kingston memory chips. The problem is Signal 11 panics. It seems to be memory related. Kingston sent 2 replacement chips. I installed them and it made it noticeably worse. With the new chips I can't even get through an fsck. With the old chips I haven't been able to do a build world. I will sometimes get about halfway through. Does anyone else seen problems with a similar installation. I have been fighting with this for about four weeks now and can't make it work. It has two 3ware escalade controlers. I have current on one and release on the other and they exhibit the same symtoms. I even took the escalade controllers out and did an installation on an ide disk with no real change. Any ideas will sure be appreciated. I haven't been successful at rousting anyone at fnord for over two weeks. They delivered the machine almost a month late because they were having problems installing freebsd, their standard installation, which makes me think that they were having the same problems and rather than fixing them decided to ship:-( Has anyone else had good/bad experiences with FNord and especially with the 430? [ http://fnordsystems.com ] Thanks, ed --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 8: 1:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7884637B419; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (208.186.108.30.dsl.infowest.net [208.186.108.30]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EF302146B; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:01:49 -0700 (MST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Samuel J.Greear Organization: GetMegabits, Inc. To: Edwin Culp , hardware@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fnord-430/SuperMicro P3TDE6/ServerWorks SS III HE Super LIght Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:58:45 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> In-Reply-To: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011128160149.5EF302146B@ns1.infowest.com> 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 On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:36 am, Edwin Culp wrote: > I just bought a fnord 430 with a SuperMicro P3TDE6 motherboard with the > ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Super Light chipset. It has 2 - 1G PC133 > RG DIMM C3 128X72 VR Kingston memory chips. The problem is Signal 11 > panics. It seems to be memory related. Kingston sent 2 replacement > chips. I installed them and it made it noticeably worse. With the > new chips I can't even get through an fsck. With the old chips > I haven't been able to do a build world. I will sometimes > get about halfway through. Does anyone else seen problems with > a similar installation. I have been fighting with this for about > four weeks now and can't make it work. > > It has two 3ware escalade controlers. I have current on one and > release on the other and they exhibit the same symtoms. I even > took the escalade controllers out and did an installation on > an ide disk with no real change. > > Any ideas will sure be appreciated. I haven't been successful at > rousting anyone at fnord for over two weeks. They delivered the > machine almost a month late because they were having problems > installing freebsd, their standard installation, which makes me > think that they were having the same problems and rather than > fixing them decided to ship:-( > > Has anyone else had good/bad experiences with FNord and especially with > the 430? [ http://fnordsystems.com ] > > Thanks, > > ed > We had some problems with several ServerWorks-based boards.. (Intel) Symptoms were remarkably similar, seemingly random panics (sig11). At first we thought it was RAM, but the memory checked out good, then we thought it might be a heat issue, so we pulled the cover and got some fans blowing on it, this helped a bit. Then we decided to try running a UP kernel, this helped considerably but didn't completely eliminate the problem. Finally, we flashed the BIOS to the newest version, not a problem since. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 8:47:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from savvyworld.net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5AB37B421; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by savvyworld.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fASGl5w89814; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 64.173.182.155 ( [64.173.182.155]) as user eculp@SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:05 -0800 Message-ID: <1006966025.3c05150958592@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:05 -0800 From: Edwin Culp To: "Samuel J.Greear" Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord-430/SuperMicro P3TDE6/ServerWorks SS III HE Super LIght References: <1006961799.3c0504870e978@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> <20011128160149.5EF302146B@ns1.infowest.com> In-Reply-To: <20011128160149.5EF302146B@ns1.infowest.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 64.173.182.155 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 Quoting "Samuel J.Greear" : | On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:36 am, Edwin Culp wrote: | > I just bought a fnord 430 with a SuperMicro P3TDE6 motherboard with the | > ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Super Light chipset. It has 2 - 1G PC133 | > RG DIMM C3 128X72 VR Kingston memory chips. The problem is Signal 11 | > panics. It seems to be memory related. Kingston sent 2 replacement | > chips. I installed them and it made it noticeably worse. With the | > new chips I can't even get through an fsck. With the old chips | > I haven't been able to do a build world. I will sometimes | > get about halfway through. Does anyone else seen problems with | > a similar installation. I have been fighting with this for about | > four weeks now and can't make it work. | > | > It has two 3ware escalade controlers. I have current on one and | > release on the other and they exhibit the same symtoms. I even | > took the escalade controllers out and did an installation on | > an ide disk with no real change. | > | > Any ideas will sure be appreciated. I haven't been successful at | > rousting anyone at fnord for over two weeks. They delivered the | > machine almost a month late because they were having problems | > installing freebsd, their standard installation, which makes me | > think that they were having the same problems and rather than | > fixing them decided to ship:-( | > | > Has anyone else had good/bad experiences with FNord and especially with | > the 430? [ http://fnordsystems.com ] | > | > Thanks, | > | > ed | > | | We had some problems with several ServerWorks-based boards.. (Intel) | Symptoms were remarkably similar, seemingly random panics (sig11). | At first we thought it was RAM, but the memory checked out good, | then we thought it might be a heat issue, so we pulled the cover | and got some fans blowing on it, this helped a bit. Then we decided | to try running a UP kernel, this helped considerably but didn't | completely eliminate the problem. Finally, we flashed the BIOS to | the newest version, not a problem since. That is what I wanted to do but can't get the floppy to boot:-( It works but will not boot under any circumstances. It'll boot from the cd, the hd and network but not the floppy. I'm going to have to bring it up with a windows cd, I guess, and then flash the bios from the floppy. thanks for your help, ed | | Sam | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message | --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 9:57:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from savvyworld.net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6A637B41B; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by savvyworld.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fASHuen90657; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 64.173.182.155 ( [64.173.182.155]) as user eculp@SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:56:40 -0800 Message-ID: <1006970200.3c05255835ec3@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:56:40 -0800 From: Edwin Culp To: John Von Essen Cc: isp@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fnord-430/SuperMicro P3TDE6/ServerWorks SS III HE Super LIght References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 64.173.182.155 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 John, Thank you so much for your reply. Your offer is what I expected from Fnord Systems and I have received the exact opposite. I unfortunately paid cash in advance. The even took 10 days extra because they claimed that their bank hadn't released the funds, before ordering the parts of the server. I even had to put up my credit card with Kingston to get them to ship the two chips. I am going to do the following, get two more chips 256 or 512 to be sure that it isn't the ram. Upgrade the bios to eliminate that option. Then if I can't get Fnord to fulfill their warranty, I will take you up on your offer and direct all my future business your way. Thanks, again. ed Quoting John Von Essen : | Well, my company sells server systems very similar to that of Fnord. From | what I can tell, they are not fulfilling their "2 Year Warranty". Obviously | the hardware is defective. If you paid with a credit card, you can have | your | card company refund the money for failure to return defective items. | | Otherwise, I would EMAIL supermicro Tech support. You cant call, but email | will work. I think it is support@supermicro.com. Give them all the specs. | They test their hardware for linux and freebsd now, so they might help. It | is possible that it is a bad board. | | If you get nowhere, I can offer the following help. We use those same | chassis's. I can supply you with new "guts" to get you up and running. Guts | being, a new ServerWorks mainboard. We use the TYAN 2518, which uses Reg. | ECC PC133 SDRAM and ServerWorks. These boards work great on FreeBSD. You | can | keep your processors and memory, as long as they are okay, which they | probably are. | | Best of luck... | | If you want to copy this to freebsd list, go ahead. | | | | John Von Essen | President, Essenz Consulting (www.essenz.com) | EMAIL: john@essenz.com | DIRECT PHONE: (800) 248-1736 | International: +01 814 861 0922 | | | on 11/28/01 12:22 PM, eculp@EnContacto.Net wrote: | | > John, | > | > That is what I have been trying to do but to not loose even more time | > I am trying to fix the problem. It has, I think, to be fixable:-) | > | > Fnord service has gone from bad to impossible. They are great at passing | > the buck on everything and will not except responsibility for anything. | > They won't even answer their emails. | > | > I see you are a consultant also, I would definately not recommend fnord | to | > you, | > although the box is well built and, IMO, with great components and a | > reasonable | > price. I just don't get it unless they are about to go under. | > | > Thanks for the help, | > | > ed | > | > P.S. Would you mind if I resend this with a copy to the list, that might | > help get Fnord's attention. I actually found them from on of my | > posts for server recommendations on isp or hardward, I don't remember. | > They are/were subscribed. I've actually waited a month to do this, BTW. | > | > Quoting John Von Essen : | > | > | This may be an obvious solution, but... | > | | > | Why don't you contact Fnord Systems and ask them why their hardware | doesn't | > | work out-of-the-box??? It seems that they did not even test it before | > | shipping... | > | | > | Otherwise... After the 840 chipset disaster with Supermicro, I have | stayed | > | away entirely from Supermicro boards. | > | | > | | > | | > | John Von Essen | > | President, Essenz Consulting (www.essenz.com) | > | EMAIL: john@essenz.com | > | DIRECT PHONE: (800) 248-1736 | > | International: +01 814 861 0922 | > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > | on 11/28/01 10:36 AM, eculp@EnContacto.Net wrote: | > | | > | > I just bought a fnord 430 with a SuperMicro P3TDE6 motherboard with | the | > | > ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Super Light chipset. It has 2 - 1G | PC133 | > | > RG DIMM C3 128X72 VR Kingston memory chips. The problem is Signal 11 | > | > panics. It seems to be memory related. Kingston sent 2 replacement | > | > chips. I installed them and it made it noticeably worse. With the | > | > new chips I can't even get through an fsck. With the old chips | > | > I haven't been able to do a build world. I will sometimes | > | > get about halfway through. Does anyone else seen problems with | > | > a similar installation. I have been fighting with this for about | > | > four weeks now and can't make it work. | > | > | > | > It has two 3ware escalade controlers. I have current on one and | > | > release on the other and they exhibit the same symtoms. I even | > | > took the escalade controllers out and did an installation on | > | > an ide disk with no real change. | > | > | > | > Any ideas will sure be appreciated. I haven't been successful at | > | > rousting anyone at fnord for over two weeks. They delivered the | > | > machine almost a month late because they were having problems | > | > installing freebsd, their standard installation, which makes me | > | > think that they were having the same problems and rather than | > | > fixing them decided to ship:-( | > | > | > | > Has anyone else had good/bad experiences with FNord and especially | with | > | > the 430? [ http://fnordsystems.com ] | > | > | > | > Thanks, | > | > | > | > ed | > | > | > | > | > | > --- | > | > | > | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | > | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message | > | > | > | | > | | > | > | > | > | > --- | > | | --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 17:15:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0AF37B41C for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAT1Fba15049 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:15:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAT1FbM29302 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:15:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200111290115.fAT1FbM29302@harmony.village.org> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Comments on four mobos Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:15:37 -0700 From: Warner Losh 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 I'm looking at four new motherboards. What do people think of them: FIC AZ11EA FIC AD11 ASUS A7A266 with one of the faster, newer chips in them (1GHz more or less). Does anybody have any bad/good experiences with these? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 28 23:38: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6412737B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:37:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA27629; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:37:48 +1100 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:37:51 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: To: Warner Losh Cc: Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos In-Reply-To: <200111290115.fAT1FbM29302@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: <20011129181454.E756-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > I'm looking at four new motherboards. What do people think of them: > > FIC AZ11EA > FIC AD11 > ASUS A7A266 > > with one of the faster, newer chips in them (1GHz more or less). Does > anybody have any bad/good experiences with these? I just got an ASUS A7V266-E. I think it is preferable to the above except it is confused about irq0: atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f irq 0 at device 17.1 on pci0 The A7V266-E has a KT266A chipset which is claimed to have significantly better memory controller than the ALI chipset in the A7A266. My bcopy and bzero benchmarks run at a maximum of 533e6 bytes/sec and 811e6 b/s respectively (with an Athlon1400XP overclocked to 10.5*146). My version of makeworld takes 1418.81 seconds (with one DTLA 30MB disk). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 29 9:32:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1B237B41F for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fATHWNa18558; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:32:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fATHWNM34746; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:32:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200111291732.fATHWNM34746@harmony.village.org> To: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:37:51 +1100." <20011129181454.E756-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20011129181454.E756-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:32:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh 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 In message <20011129181454.E756-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Bruce Evans writes: : I just got an ASUS A7V266-E. I think it is preferable to the above : except it is confused about irq0: : : atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f irq 0 at device 17.1 on pci0 This is a bug in the BIOS. It should say irq 255 rather than irq 0 for devices that don't have an irq assigned. This will be fixed in current soonish. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 30 9:44: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.inode.at (goliath.inode.at [195.58.161.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141DF37B417 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:43:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from line212.adsl.wien.inode.at ([213.229.7.212] helo=inode.at) by smtp.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 169rha-0003z4-00 for hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:43:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3C07C60B.CE61E97F@inode.at> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:46:51 +0100 From: Michael Bretterklieber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: VIA onChip LAN (KT266A) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi, is the VIA onChip LAN (KT266A) - Ethernet Card supported by FreeBSD? bye, -- -------------------------------------- E-mail: Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at ---------------------------- JAWA Management Software GmbH Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 A-8041 GRAZ Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 GSM: ++43-(0)676-93 96 698 homepage: http://www.jawa.at --------- privat ----------- E-mail: mbretter@inode.at homepage: http://www.inode.at/mbretter -------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 30 19: 0:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C03737B416 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:00:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from cheech.uchaswv.edu ([172.16.32.239]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA11477 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:02:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:07:07 -0500 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd hardware Subject: motherboard recommendations?? Message-Id: <20011130220707.749faa58.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 i need to get a new motherboard. i'm looking for something that has no integrated video,sound or nic. supports amd sockets....although amd slots would work better. it needs support for lots of ram..1.5GB or more..and supports processor speeds from about 800mhz-1.5ghz. ATX form factor. and an AGP slot for the the video. any idea if there are any 'brand name' boards out there like that? nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 30 19:47:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF3137B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from columbia ([12.93.208.86]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20011201034707.YOPR15547.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@columbia>; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 03:47:07 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Nathan Mace" , "freebsd hardware" Subject: RE: motherboard recommendations?? Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:46:36 -0500 Message-ID: <005c01c17a1a$c6bd07e0$6600000a@ach.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-reply-to: <20011130220707.749faa58.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Importance: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nathan Mace > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:07 PM > To: freebsd hardware > Subject: motherboard recommendations?? > > i need to get a new motherboard. i'm looking for something that has no > integrated video,sound or nic. supports amd sockets....although amd > slots would work better. it needs support for lots of ram..1.5GB or > more..and supports processor speeds from about 800mhz-1.5ghz. ATX form > factor. and an AGP slot for the the video. > > any idea if there are any 'brand name' boards out there like that? Tyan seems to be the leader with AMD motherboards. Asus is another good manufacturer. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Nov 30 22:19:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tp.databus.com (p101-46.acedsl.com [160.79.101.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D85937B416 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from barney@localhost) by tp.databus.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fB16J6H33543; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 01:19:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from barney) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 01:19:06 -0500 From: Barney Wolff To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd hardware Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations?? Message-ID: <20011201011906.A33353@tp.databus.com> References: <20011130220707.749faa58.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011130220707.749faa58.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:07:07PM -0500 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 I run an Athlon 1600XP on an Abit KG7 which meets your specs. It's been trouble-free, but it's my w2k system so I didn't verify fbsd compatibility. On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:07:07PM -0500, Nathan Mace wrote: > i need to get a new motherboard. i'm looking for something that has no > integrated video,sound or nic. supports amd sockets....although amd > slots would work better. it needs support for lots of ram..1.5GB or > more..and supports processor speeds from about 800mhz-1.5ghz. ATX form > factor. and an AGP slot for the the video. -- Barney Wolff "Nonetheless, ease and peace had left this people still curiously tough. They were, if it came to it, difficult to daunt or to kill; and they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive rough handling by grief, foe, or weather in a way that astonished those who did not know them well and looked no further than their bellies and their well-fed faces." J.R.R.T. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 1 7:26:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.realtime.net (dragon.realtime.net [205.238.128.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D835C37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 07:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from tigerfish2.my.domain ([66.25.208.136]) by dragon.realtime.net ; Sat, 01 Dec 2001 09:25:45 -0600 Received: (from brucegb@localhost) by tigerfish2.my.domain (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fB1FTde60089; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:29:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brucegb) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:29:39 -0600 From: Bruce Burden To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations?? Message-ID: <20011201092938.I28452@tigerfish2.my.domain> References: <20011130220707.749faa58.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011130220707.749faa58.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:07:07PM -0500 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 You should look for one that has the new thermal protection mode on the board, and I am not sure how many are available righ now. I suspect the number is "0". This protection simply kills power to the cpu if it detects a temperature spike. Still, it is bette than losing the cpu if the fan comes off or goes bad. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 1 8:19:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bsdhome.com (rdu25-2-113.nc.rr.com [24.25.2.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E5737B419 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from neutrino.bsdhome.com (jupiter [192.168.220.13]) by smtp.bsdhome.com (8.11.3nb1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fB1GJi715827; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:19:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by neutrino.bsdhome.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB1GJd122455; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:19:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:19:39 -0500 From: Brian Dean To: Warner Losh Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos Message-ID: <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com> References: <200111290115.fAT1FbM29302@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111290115.fAT1FbM29302@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:15:37PM -0700 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 On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:15:37PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm looking at four new motherboards. What do people think of them: > > FIC AZ11EA > FIC AD11 > ASUS A7A266 > > with one of the faster, newer chips in them (1GHz more or less). Does > anybody have any bad/good experiences with these? While not on your list, I bought an ASUS A7M266 mid-summer and haven't had any trouble. I'm not sure about the differences between the ATA266 which is on your list - but hey, it's only off by one letter :). The only thing I wish I could change would be to increase the number of DIMM sockets. It only has two, so to go higher than 512M, you need to use the more expensive 512M or 1G memory modules. I've currently got 512 Meg in it, but this is too constraining for some of the things I am doing and I end up swapping a lot. I'm using a 1.33 GHz Athlon + SCSI with it and am very happy with performance. My typical buildworld + buildkernel is about 35 minutes. -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.org bsd@bsdhome.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 1 14:52:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C28737B41A for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:52:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from kernighan.demon.co.uk ([194.222.151.76] helo=homebrew.localdomain) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16AJ02-000Lac-0C for hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:52:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (njh@localhost) by homebrew.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fB1Mo0601014 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:52:42 GMT (envelope-from njh@kernighan.demon.co.uk) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:49:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Neil Hoggarth X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Logitech Desktop iTouch Keyboard/Mouse Message-ID: <20011201221953.W899-100000@homebrew.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi Folks, I have Sony Vaio PCG-N505SN laptop, running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE. I'm trying to attach to this a Logitech "Cordless Desktop iTouch" package, which consists of: (a) cordless mouse (model M-RP67) (b) cordless keyboard (model Y-RF21 RT7R03 V:5XTTWUK) (c) a receiver for (a) and (b) (model C-BD9-DUAL) The receiver either plugs into a single USB port, or two PS/2 ports. I'm trying to use it with the single USB connection (no PS/2 ports on the Sony). The keyboard works as a USB keyboard. I can run "kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd1" and drive the console via the cordless keyboard. The mouse is detected; usbd is running and launches a plausable looking moused process at boot time, or following a device attach. However - moving the cordless mouse about or pressing its buttons doesn't seem to produce any activity on /dev/ums0. There is no sign of mouse pointer activity on virtual terminals or under X (which is configured to use /dev/sysmouse to pick up the output of moused). I tried running "moused -d -f -p /dev/ums0". I get moused: proto params: f8 80 00 00 8 00 ff moused: port: /dev/ums0 interface: usb type: sysmouse model: generic and no further activity, regardless of how energetically I move the mouse around the desktop or play with buttons and wheels. Communications between the cordless mouse and the receiver are okay (I tested the receiver/mouse combination as a PS/2 mouse on an old desktop machine to confirm this). Relevant output from dmesg: uhci0: port 0xfca0-0xfcbf irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ukbd0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/13.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir. Output from "usbdevs -v": Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 0x0100 port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 50 mA, config 1, USB Receiver(0xc504), Logitech(0x046d), rev 0x1310 port 2 powered Does anyone have any ideas why this might not be working, or any possible fixes? One idea that did occur to me is that the kernel might have problems correctly handling a single USB device (the receiver) which acts both as a USB keyboard and as a USB mouse simultaneously, such that no data ever gets delivered via /dev/ums0? Regards, Neil Hoggarth, Oxford, UK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 1 16:48: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D3437B417 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (lxpx211.lx.ehu.es [158.227.26.111]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB20lsr10026 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:47:54 +0100 (MET) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB20e1T00378 for hardware@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:40:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jose) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:40:01 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: ata(4) does not detect WDMA2-capable CD-ROM, but NetBSD does Message-ID: <20011202014001.A335@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 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 Just after I got a bigger hard disk for my laptop, I reserved a partition for doing experiments, and my first experiment was installing NetBSD 1.5.2. After finishing the installation I found something surprising: NetBSD detected the CD-ROM drive (a Toshiba XM-1902B) as WDMA2-capable: cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: type 5 cdrom removable cd0: 32-bit data port cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15 cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers) However, FreeBSD (4.4-STABLE) does not detect that WDMA2 capability and puts it into PIO4 mode: atapci0: port 0x860-0x86f at device 7.1 on pci0 ... ata1: iobase=0x0170 altiobase=0x0376 bmaddr=0x0868 ata1: mask=03 status0=50 status1=00 ata1: mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat2=00 ata1-master: ATAPI probe a=14 b=eb ata1-slave: ATAPI probe a=7f b=7f ata1: mask=03 status0=00 status1=00 ata1: devices=04 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ... ata1-master: piomode=4 dmamode=2 udmamode=-1 dmaflag=1 ata1-master: success setting PIO4 on generic chip acd0: CDROM drive at ata1 as master acd0: read 4134KB/s (34515KB/s), 128KB buffer, PIO4 Obviously hw.ata.atapi_dma is enabled. If I set hw.atamodes=dma,---,dma,---, a "dd if=/dev/acd0c of=/dev/null bs=2k" gets blocked in ps(1)'s "D" state. I wonder why NetBSD can put this CD-ROM drive into WDMA2 mode while FreeBSD cannot. This is not a real problem for me, but I would like to find out the reason ;-) Søren? -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message