From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 20 02:40:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB9B1065670 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu) Received: from wnk.hamline.edu (wnk2.hamline.edu [138.192.246.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DEE8FC0C for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wnk.hamline.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by wnk.hamline.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8K2cKO2003146; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:38:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (rjohanne@localhost) by wnk.hamline.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id n8K2cKB3003143; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:38:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:38:20 -0500 (CDT) From: R J X-X-Sender: rjohanne@wnk To: Marius Strobl In-Reply-To: <20090918124423.GP57060@alchemy.franken.de> Message-ID: References: <20090906182156.GA66161@alchemy.franken.de> <20090909184504.GD57060@alchemy.franken.de> <20090918124423.GP57060@alchemy.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata pci cards in ultra 60 or blade 1000 (Update) X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:40:07 -0000 Just finished copying around a terabyte of data through a couple of disks attached to ata-marvell with the new patch without issue. So, it looks good to me. I haven't gotten in touch with mav@freebsd.org yet regarding the siis driver. I will as soon as I am done with the ata-marvell testing. Robert On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:28:25PM -0500, R J wrote: >> Hi Marius, >> I've been using the patched driver and have moved more than 500 gigs of >> data on the disk drive attached to the ata-marvell controller. >> >> Can you incorporate your patch into the 8.0 BETA and 7.X stable? >> >> It seems a very stable, well-performing driver. It has worked flawlessly >> during the moves of enormous data backup and forth between the built in >> fibre-channel drives and the ata-marvell attached Hitachi drive. > > I've updated the patch at > http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/ata-marvell.c.diff > slighlty based on feedback I got during review. Could > you please give the new version (which has an MD5 hash > of a56305fef5edb1d1510373b7e063aaab) a sanity check? > Some basic transfer should be sufficient to verify > it still works. If no new problem arises I'll commit > the patch to head, stable/8 and stable/7. > >> >> I wish I could say the same thing regarding the Sil3512. I still haven't >> been able to go any where with that. > > AFAICT the "old" ata-siliconimage(4) suffers from the > same bugs as ata-marvell(4) does, i.e. isn't endian > clean and misses DMA synchronisation besides 64-bit > DMA being broken, but isn't as straight forward to > fix as ata-marvell(4) is. The new siis(4) doesn't > have these bugs though, so I'd expect it to work fine. > Have you talked to mav@freebsd.org regarding siis(4)? > > Marius > > reason=bad sender (\.de) > >