From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 15:31:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076C016A42F for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:31:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) Received: from omega.nanophys.kth.se (omega.nanophys.kth.se [130.237.35.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691CE43D55; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:31:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) Received: from omega.nanophys.kth.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by omega.nanophys.kth.se (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1JFVviY042914; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:31:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by omega.nanophys.kth.se (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k1JFVvhT042913; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:31:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) X-Authentication-Warning: omega.nanophys.kth.se: kono set sender to kono@kth.se using -f From: Alexander Konovalenko Organization: KTH To: reebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:31:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602191631.57012.kono@kth.se> Cc: kono@kth.se, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: wireless pc/usb-card support in FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kono@kth.se List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:31:44 -0000 Hi, Can somebody recommend me what pc-card or UBS adapter I shall buy for my FreeBSD 6.0 laptop? I am not sure what is supported and what is not. There are several model available for purchasing, does anybody use any of them? NETGEAR: WG-511, WG-511T BELKIN: F5D7010YY 802.11g, F5D7011 802.11g claimed backward compatible with 802.11b CANYON: CN-WF513 802.11b/g D-LINK: DWL-610 11Mbps 802.11b, DWL-G650+ 11/22/54Mbps 802.11b/g, D-Link DWL-G650 11/54/108Mbps 802.11b/g, DWL-G630 802.11b/g GIGABYTE 802.11b/g 108Mbps SITECOM WL-112 54Mbps Also what about USB2.0 wireless adaptors like: NETGEAR NGWG111 802.11b/g, Netgear WG121GE/WG111IS, GIGABYTE 802.11g, SITECOM WL-113 Thanks! /Alexander Konovalenko +46-8-5537-8142 (office) +46-7-3752-2116 http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Nanostructure Physics Department, Albanova Roslagstullsbacken 21 10691 Stockholm Sweden From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 08:59:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2EF16A423 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:59:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from perl.se (perl.se [82.99.44.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9597C43D45 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:59:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from mail2.swebase.com (mail2.swebase.com [82.99.44.25]) by perl.se (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1K97Wb3021219 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:07:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from [82.99.47.5] by mail2.swebase.com (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.0.R) with ESMTP id 05-md50000004391.msg for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:58:23 +0100 Message-ID: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:58:12 +0100 From: nocturnal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Processed: mail2.swebase.com, Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:58:23 +0100 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 82.99.47.5 X-Return-Path: nocturnal@swehack.se X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:59:22 -0000 Hi I'm wondering if anyone here knows if software RAID 1 works well on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 machines with SATA disks. I hear a lot about SATA software RAID not working on FreeBSD and my only experience with SATA RAID and FreeBSD was full of problems so i thought i'd ask here for other people with experience using Dell PowerEdge machines. The sales people at Dell didn't know which chipset they had in their machines so maybe someone here knows? It's a 1U rack server so i assume it's an onboard SATA card. -- Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 18:31:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4811316A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:31:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: from cauchy.aub.dk (cauchy.aub.dk [194.255.124.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D168643D48 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:31:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost.aub.dk [127.0.0.1]) by cauchy.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB0011A2D; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from cauchy.aub.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cauchy.aub.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14383-03; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.1.4.50] (unknown [10.1.4.50]) by cauchy.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED56F119F8; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:09 +0100 From: "J. Martin Petersen" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> In-Reply-To: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at aub.dk Cc: nocturnal@swehack.se Subject: Re: Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:31:14 -0000 nocturnal wrote: > Hi > > I'm wondering if anyone here knows if software RAID 1 works well on Dell > PowerEdge SC1425 machines with SATA disks. I hear a lot about SATA > software RAID not working on FreeBSD and my only experience with SATA > RAID and FreeBSD was full of problems so i thought i'd ask here for > other people with experience using Dell PowerEdge machines. > > The sales people at Dell didn't know which chipset they had in their > machines so maybe someone here knows? It's a 1U rack server so i assume > it's an onboard SATA card. We're using gmirror on ours, I haven't actually checked if the onboard-thing works in FreeBSD. I can get you a verboose boot from a PowerEdge SC1425 running FreeBSD 6.0 in a couple of days, if that has interest? Martin From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 21:05:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B330D16A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:05:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anton@nikiforov.ru) Received: from vika.newlines.ru (anna.newlines.ru [195.246.218.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31CC43D67 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:05:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anton@nikiforov.ru) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by vika.newlines.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A651197F; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:05:09 +0300 (MSK) Received: from vika.newlines.ru ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (anna.newlines.ru [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00761-03; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:04:59 +0300 (MSK) Received: from [192.168.80.104] (dyagileva.office.sportlottery.ru [192.168.80.104]) by vika.newlines.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:04:59 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <43FA2EFA.9020603@nikiforov.ru> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:04:58 +0300 From: Anton Nikiforov Organization: NewLines Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bakul Shah References: <200602172246.k1HMklUs034116@gate.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: <200602172246.k1HMklUs034116@gate.bitblocks.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms010901040902060804090308" X-Virus-Scanned: By amavis at office-gw.newlines.ru Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LSI Trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: anton@nikiforov.ru List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:05:25 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010901040902060804090308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bakul Shah wrote: > And TELL US WHAT WORKED (just on freebsd-hardware)! That is > your punishment for duplicate posting. Hello all Here we go, a report of getting my disks back alive :) The situation: Server got down and cannot startup claiming that NVRAM configuration differ with DISK configuration of LSI logic RAID controller and it cannot resolve it. There was no way to vew configuration on this computer, so i moved disk to another system with the same controller type. Trying to use controller's software i have found out that NVRAM contain some strange config while disks contain NO CONFIG at all. The solution steps 1. I did reconnect disks to the plain Adpatec SCSI controller. 2. After a while i have found out that disks that contaon clear FreeBSD partitions. 3. I have made dd backup of all disks. That takes a long time, and i have found out that 3 out of 6 disks cannot sync transfer at 320MBPS, but only 80. 4. After backing everything I mounted disks into /mnt and found out that disks that were RAID1 are just fine and i can acess the data with no problem. 5. RAID 5 disks contain some strange (strange for me) info - 2 140GB disks contain partition of 280GB and the third disk of this RAID5 set - only 14MB!!! FreeBSD partition and some other data. As far as i know RAID5 algorythm this is impossible - i should have 3 disks with some data, maybe even with partitions, viewable with FreeBSD fdisk. This two disks looks exactly like software RAID0. And the third one may contain parity (it contain no data that should looks like a data, i was trying to analyze it), so this will be not a RAID5 set, but RAID4 (it is strange - controller does not support RAID4 ;) ). 6. Then i have configured RAID sets exactly like it was, conntcted my data disks and was trying to boot. But controller starts to claim on disks wit ID 1,3 and 5 that they are not present in the system. And spinup time was about 20 minutes. In addition controller clamed "There is no LSI controller on the system"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7. Analyzing how leds are blinking i have found out that disk with ID4 have a delay and it's led was lighting more than other's. 8. I removed this disk and the controller starts to boot with no claims. In addition it rebuilds the RAID5 set on the Hot Spare disk. Resume: 1. Looks like the block size of the RAID affect only cache and other system characteristics, but not data itself (in case i'm right with RAID5-RAID4. Otherwise i cannot understand why Strip size is available for RAID1 where it has no sence) 2. Looks like this controller claims that it is suport RAID5 while it is only RAID4. 3. While one disk become broken (and please note, that i made a backup of this disk with no problem on the different controller). the controller could claim anything! that other disks broken, that there is no controller or whatever it can claim :) So do not belive the controller messages :) This was checked on two systems with 3 controllers and the result was the same - while LSIs were claiming - Adaptec just saw disks and data. ToDo: Analyze RAID5 sets from LSI and, maybe (because i'm not a great C coder) make some tool to get data from broken RAID sets. 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RAID 5 disks contain some strange (strange for me) info - 2 140GB > disks contain partition of 280GB and the third disk of this RAID5 set - > only 14MB!!! FreeBSD partition and some other data. As far as i know > RAID5 algorythm this is impossible - i should have 3 disks with some > data, maybe even with partitions, viewable with FreeBSD fdisk. fdisk depends on sector 0 of a disk. In a raid5 setup only the first disk will have raid5 sector 0, which will show the size of raid5 'disk' which is 280GB. So I don't think you can infer anything from fdisk run on individual disks of a RAID5 set. [Unless LSI logic is doing something weird + I am just guessing and may have completely misunderstood you] > 2. Looks like this controller claims that it is suport RAID5 while it is > only RAID4. Likely it supports RAID5 and you are misunderstanding something. > ToDo: > Analyze RAID5 sets from LSI and, maybe (because i'm not a great C coder) > make some tool to get data from broken RAID sets. I wouldn't bother. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 08:31:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E8F616A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:31:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from perl.se (perl.se [82.99.44.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EF943D46 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from mail2.swebase.com (mail2.swebase.com [82.99.44.25]) by perl.se (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1M8dDIf008537 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:39:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [82.99.47.5] by mail2.swebase.com (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.0.R) with ESMTP id 27-md50000005020.msg for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:29:36 +0100 Message-ID: <43FC20E6.8030706@swehack.se> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:29:26 +0100 From: nocturnal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Martin Petersen" References: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> In-Reply-To: <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Processed: mail2.swebase.com, Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:29:36 +0100 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 82.99.47.5 X-Return-Path: nocturnal@swehack.se X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:31:05 -0000 Hi I later found out that it was an Intel e7520 Chipset and i have seen on freebsd.org that two testers have tried that card with both 5.4-STABLE and -RELEASE. I e-mailed them and they only tried the SCSI RAID, not the SATA. Since we decided the customer did afford SCSI i think i'm fine but SATA RAID needs a lot of work in FreeBSD. It seems as if everyone is afraid of it and i am to. Thank you for your help. Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se J. Martin Petersen wrote: > nocturnal wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm wondering if anyone here knows if software RAID 1 works well on Dell >> PowerEdge SC1425 machines with SATA disks. I hear a lot about SATA >> software RAID not working on FreeBSD and my only experience with SATA >> RAID and FreeBSD was full of problems so i thought i'd ask here for >> other people with experience using Dell PowerEdge machines. >> >> The sales people at Dell didn't know which chipset they had in their >> machines so maybe someone here knows? It's a 1U rack server so i assume >> it's an onboard SATA card. > > We're using gmirror on ours, I haven't actually checked if the > onboard-thing works in FreeBSD. I can get you a verboose boot from a > PowerEdge SC1425 running FreeBSD 6.0 in a couple of days, if that has > interest? > > Martin From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 00:05:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B14E16A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gbaratto@superb.net) Received: from smail2.superb.net (smail2.superb.net [64.251.80.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088A443D45 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gbaratto@superb.net) Received: from garrincha (S01060080c8118809.vc.shawcable.net [24.82.90.177]) by smail2.superb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D701F8D5A for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:05:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <016e01c6380c$c98b7240$6500a8c0@garrincha> From: "Gustavo A. Baratto" To: Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:04:59 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Subject: interrupts for ATA and BGE X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:05:13 -0000 Two of our servers have an onboard broadcom NIC, and I noticed that in both of them, the number of interrupts for the ata device is always the same as the onboard bge device. I don't really understand what an ATA driver has to do with the bge0, and worse, do these numbers below mean that there are two interrupts going on where it should be just one? Thanks for any input... # vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 38 0 irq6: fdc0 12 0 irq13: npx0 1 0 irq14: ata0 58 0 irq15: ata1 192549752 165 irq16: ahc0 1795054 1 irq17: ahc1 15 0 irq30: fxp0 545717199 468 irq31: bge0 192987168 165 cpu0: timer 2330016902 1999 Total 3263066199 2800 # Interrupt output from "systat -vmstat". The numbers for ata on icq 15 and bge on irq31, are always the same here: 2648 total 1: atkb 6: fdc0 13: npx 14: ata 212 15: ata 16: ahc 17: ahc 222 30: fxp 212 31: bge 2002 cpu0: time #dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC MPTable: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2399.93-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x4400> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) avail memory = 2096689152 (1999 MB) ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 ioapic1: Assuming intbase of 16 ioapic2: Assuming intbase of 32 ioapic3: Assuming intbase of 48 ioapic0 irqs 0-15 on motherboard ioapic1 irqs 16-31 on motherboard ioapic2 irqs 32-47 on motherboard ioapic3 irqs 48-63 on motherboard npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pci0: at device 2.0 (no driver attached) fxp0: port 0x9f00-0x9f3f mem 0xfe6fe000-0xfe6fefff,0xfe6a0000-0xfe6bffff irq 30 at device 4.0 on pci0 miibus0: on fxp0 inphy0: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:52:98:44 isab0: at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: on atapci0 ata1: on atapci0 pcib1: pcibus 1 on motherboard pci1: on pcib1 asr0: mem 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff irq 26 at device 2.0 on pci1 asr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] asr0: ADAPTEC 2110S FW Rev. 380E, 1 channel, 256 CCBs, Protocol I2O pcib2: at device 2.1 on pci1 pci2: on pcib2 bge0: mem 0xfe8e0000-0xfe8effff irq 31 at device 3.0 on pci1 miibus1: on bge0 brgphy0: on miibus1 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:52:98:45 pcib3: pcibus 3 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard $PIR: Ignoring invalid BIOS IRQ 29 from 0.2.INTA for link 0x1d $PIR: Ignoring invalid BIOS IRQ 30 from 0.4.INTA for link 0x1e $PIR: Ignoring invalid BIOS IRQ 26 from 1.2.INTA for link 0x1a $PIR: Ignoring invalid BIOS IRQ 31 from 1.3.INTA for link 0x1f pci3: on pcib3 pcib4: pcibus 4 on motherboard pci4: on pcib4 pcib5: pcibus 5 on motherboard pci5: on pcib5 ahc0: port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xfebfe000-0xfebfefff irq 16 at device 3.0 on pci5 ahc0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ahc1: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebff000-0xfebfffff irq 17 at device 3.1 on pci5 ahc1: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff,0xc9000-0xca7ff,0xca800-0xd07ff on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: parallel port not found. sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2399927312 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec acd0: CDROM at ata0-master UDMA33 Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da0 at asr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 105010MB (215060480 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 13386C) Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted bge0: link state changed to UP bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge0: link state changed to DOWN bge0: link state changed to UP From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 16:41:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E464416A422 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:41:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D7E43D72 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:40:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1NGeq9F052539; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:37:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <016e01c6380c$c98b7240$6500a8c0@garrincha> In-Reply-To: <016e01c6380c$c98b7240$6500a8c0@garrincha> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602231137.28409.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1299/Thu Feb 23 06:19:52 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: "Gustavo A. Baratto" Subject: Re: interrupts for ATA and BGE X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:41:03 -0000 On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:04, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote: > Two of our servers have an onboard broadcom NIC, and I noticed that in both > of them, the number of interrupts for the ata device is always the same as > the onboard bge device. I don't really understand what an ATA driver has to > do with the bge0, and worse, do these numbers below mean that there are two > interrupts going on where it should be just one? > > Thanks for any input... > > # vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq1: atkbd0 38 0 > irq6: fdc0 12 0 > irq13: npx0 1 0 > irq14: ata0 58 0 > irq15: ata1 192549752 165 > irq16: ahc0 1795054 1 > irq17: ahc1 15 0 > irq30: fxp0 545717199 468 > irq31: bge0 192987168 165 > cpu0: timer 2330016902 1999 > Total 3263066199 2800 > > > # Interrupt output from "systat -vmstat". The numbers for ata on icq 15 and > bge on irq31, are always the same here: > 2648 total > 1: atkb > 6: fdc0 > 13: npx > 14: ata > 212 15: ata > 16: ahc > 17: ahc > 222 30: fxp > 212 31: bge > 2002 cpu0: time This is probably an instance of the interrupt aliasing problem with certain PXH bridges in Intel server chipsets. Unfortunately there is not a workaround as it the result of brain damage in the PXH design itself. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 09:03:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D249C16A420; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:03:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) Received: from omega.nanophys.kth.se (omega.nanophys.kth.se [130.237.35.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B95243D46; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:03:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) Received: from omega.nanophys.kth.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by omega.nanophys.kth.se (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1O93vNp089880; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:03:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) Received: by omega.nanophys.kth.se (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k1O93vJc089879; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:03:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kono@kth.se) X-Authentication-Warning: omega.nanophys.kth.se: kono set sender to kono@kth.se using -f From: Alexander Konovalenko Organization: KTH To: Andreas Lattka Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:03:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602200933.38974.kono@kth.se> <1140468514.1008.3.camel@viggo.lattka.de> In-Reply-To: <1140468514.1008.3.camel@viggo.lattka.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602241003.57218.kono@kth.se> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless pc/usb-card support in FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kono@kth.se List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:03:35 -0000 On Monday 20 February 2006 21:48, Andreas Lattka wrote: > I am using the Netgear WG511 v2 with NDIS drivers, works without any > problem. > > Andreas > Thanks for suggestion, I bought NETGEAR WG511 and successfully made NDIS driver with ndisgen and ndiscvt utilities and then recompiled kernel. Card was recognized and I get rid of the message "driver is not attached" which scared me at the beginning though. I have not tested this card with real access point yet, but ifconfig works fine and the fact that I see "no carrier" is probably because there is no one in the air to connect to I guess, or? /Alexander Konovalenko +46-8-5537-8142 (office) +46-7-3752-2116 http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Nanostructure Physics Department, Albanova Roslagstullsbacken 21 10691 Stockholm Sweden From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 12:00:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55C816A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:00:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zi.mayonnaise@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7C243D48 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:00:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zi.mayonnaise@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a25so427307nfc for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:00:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type; b=gFKWZ/urrfwGRbXWWnHZgwcrORBk0nD2K0dy0H0kJyorHtY1Nslc0oKuAWfDB6N4g51qQKrz9lmlII4EqpF9ORFwbOZY9UjLIDzgOfRD5ypVCV+WfmhCPtTGKuGS8eEYK4yM/Mfr0gkdg3JDwQBDjap0IN0D/EUyst14pcNt3fE= Received: by 10.49.41.4 with SMTP id t4mr860042nfj; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.49.9 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:00:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1a05b0b40602250400g2fe7477ehc188f771aabaf374@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:00:00 +0800 From: "ZC Wong" Sender: zi.mayonnaise@gmail.com To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: sos@freebsd.org Subject: Write cache for pst (Promise SX6000 RAID)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:00:04 -0000 SSd2ZSBnb3QgYSBQcm9taXNlIFNYNjAwMCBSQUlEIGNhcmQgYW5kIHRoZSBwc3QgZHJpdmVyIHdv cmtzIHdpdGhvdXQgYW55CmNvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24gdW5kZXIgYSBHRU5FUklDIGtlcm5lbCBjYW1l IHdpdGggNi4wLVJFTEVBU0UuCgpUaGUgcHJvYmxlbSBpcyB0aGUgd3JpdGUgY2FjaGluZyBhdCBP UyBsZXZlbCwgaXQgZG9lc24ndCBsb29rIGxpa2UgYW55IGRhdGEKaXMgY2FjaGVkIGJ5IHRoZSBP UyBiZWZvcmUgaXQncyB3cml0dGVuIChldmVuIGlmIHRoZXJlJ3MgcGxlbnR5IG9mIGZyZWUKbWVt KS4KCklzIHRoZXJlIGFueSBjaGFuY2UgSSBjYW4gZ2V0IHRoZSBwc3QgZHJpdmVyIHdvcmsgbGlr ZSAvZGV2L2FkKiBpbiB0ZXJtIG9mCmNhY2hpbmc/CgpBbHNvIHRoZXJlIHNlZW1lZCB0byBiZSBh IGJvdHRsZW5lY2sgb2YgNTBNQi9zIHdoYXRldmVyIGhvdyBtdWNoIGhhcmQgZHJpdmVzCkkgY29u bmVjdCB0byB0aGUgYXJyYXkoUkFJRCAwKT8KClJlZ2FyZHMsCgpaaQo= From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 13:55:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6464A16A420; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:55:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D7343D46; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:55:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.142] (spider.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.142]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1PDth5U065529; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:55:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@deepcore.dk) Message-ID: <440061DF.6070307@deepcore.dk> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:55:43 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?U8O4cmVuIFNjaG1pZHQ=?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060130) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ZC Wong References: <1a05b0b40602250400g2fe7477ehc188f771aabaf374@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1a05b0b40602250400g2fe7477ehc188f771aabaf374@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.16 Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Write cache for pst (Promise SX6000 RAID)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:55:49 -0000 ZC Wong wrote: > I've got a Promise SX6000 RAID card and the pst driver works without any > configuration under a GENERIC kernel came with 6.0-RELEASE. > > The problem is the write caching at OS level, it doesn't look like any > data is cached by the OS before it's written (even if there's plenty of > free mem). > > Is there any chance I can get the pst driver work like /dev/ad* in term > of caching? Caching at OS level ?? There is no difference in how ATA and pst handle that, in fact the driver has nothing todo with caching, thats up to the upper layers not the device driver.. > Also there seemed to be a bottleneck of 50MB/s whatever how much hard > drives I connect to the array(RAID 0)? Thats a feature if the sx6000 HW, it cant do more than about 60Mb/s but this depends on blocksize etc, so 50Mb/s for your case might be the limit for that setup... -Søren From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 18:17:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E9816A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:17:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darkgray@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6547B43D45 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:17:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darkgray@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so571910nzi for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:17:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Dg7pc+4SccAvKvcZZG3n7SbI3aCNB1ae4a9JHtYA1jw2ZPINXHBX5L1w325xL3jyyODxPcR9enllC8aR7QwjztsTQm0UaYRMUSAftIv92SGaXrjPIrveeJlTi7r+TGylzdV6ZyakuRsHHCPk4ekOeEgaii+mZ4+dNh/b6Neb4Y4= Received: by 10.37.15.25 with SMTP id s25mr3637177nzi; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.153.4 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:17:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7537818a0602251017w45bda9a0l8418aed17a1f9784@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:17:32 +0100 From: "Patrik Roos" Sender: darkgray@gmail.com To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Trouble with pcn0 (network card) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:17:33 -0000 Greetings, I recently received two network cards from my dad, and thought I'd make a firewall. The box used is running FreeBSD 6.0, and has had a 3com card (xl0) in it the past five years, which has been and still is working well. After installing one of the new cards, it shows up like this in ifconfig: pcn0: flags=3D8843 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::260:b0ff:fece:cdf0%pcn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:60:b0:ce:cd:f0 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active dmesg gives: pcn0: port 0x10a0-0x10bf mem 0xe8000400-0xe800= 041f pcn0: Chip ID 2623 (Am79C971) Now, I've tried connecting this card to two different computers and an "internet gateway" using both normal cables and cross-wired thingies, and while the LEDs are blinking happily, it simply refuses to send anything across the link (ping says "host unreachable"). I tried switching cards (since I had two) and I get the same thing. Note that it's possible to ping the card internally, just not across the cable(s). I also tried putting the cable in the xl0 instead, and it's working fine. After some Googling, I noticed other people are having trouble with pcn0, so I started thinking it might be a bug in the driver, which apparently showed up after 4.3. In any case, help would be appreciated. Regards, Patrik Roos