From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 02:04:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E2C16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:04:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F8443D2F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:04:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wilkinsa@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au with ESMTP id j0A23KF3013304 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:33:20 +1030 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.10) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:34:21 +1030 Received: from ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.81]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id j0A1xoQ11608 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:29:50 +1030 (CST) Received: from squash.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.40.212]) by ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id YK376Z5B; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:29:36 +1030 Received: from squash.dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squash.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0A20F5n024288 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:30:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from wilkinsa@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: (from wilkinsa@localhost) by squash.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j0A20FpR024287 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:30:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from wilkinsa) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:30:15 +1030 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050110015842.GA24213@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20041223123621.GB17515@eddie.nitro.dk> <41CADACC.9050607@freebsd.org> <20050106131327.GE801@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050106.134852.41638084.imp@harmony.village.org> <41DDC29F.9000002@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DDC29F.9000002@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: pci powerstate related: aac(4) broken on Perc 3/Di on -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:04:32 -0000 0n Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:58:39PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: >It should be noted that WinXP tried to get fancy in a similar way with >automatic powerdown of devices, and broke these PERC devices in a >similar way. Due to restrictions of the MS driver framework, the only >solution that Adaptec could use was to modify the firmware to make the >bridge be opaque. This solved the issue of the OS seeing devices that >belong to the firmware, but made it impossible to run the controller in >split-channel mode, where one channel is for RAID and the other channel >is pure SCSI. Scott, what is meant by "...to make the bridge be opaque." ? - aW