Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:40:37 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: Herbert <herbert@bugat.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Elitegroup K7S5A - SIS 735 chipset Message-ID: <20011120154037.A3775@junior.kasby> In-Reply-To: <20011119231456.A2200@TK212017121218.teleweb.at>; from herbert@bugat.at on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:14:56PM %2B0100 References: <20011119231456.A2200@TK212017121218.teleweb.at>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Herbert wrote:
> Hei!
>
> Is the K7S5A mainboard and the SIS 735 chipset supported by FreeBSD
> 4.4-STABLE? What about the onboard ide controller? Can I run my hard
> disks in udma66 or udma100 mode?
> Any known problems with this mainboard and FreeBSD?
>
> Your comments are welcome! Tnx!
>
> Regards,
> Herbert
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I had no serious problem with it. It runs with a Promise FastTrak100 TX2 with
2 IBM 60GXP 40Gb at UDMA100 and one IBM 60GXP 40Gb at UDMA33 connected to the
onboard primary IDE. The onboard controller is a:
atapci0: <SiS 5591 ATA33 controller> port 0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
and, as stated in ata(4) manpage:
The currently supported controllers with their maximum speed include:
[...]
SiS 5591 Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec
The hd is connected to the IDE port with an UDMA100 80pin cable. Since this
hd is only used for backup purposes, I don't bother getting higher bus speed.
The Promise RAID controller runs just fine:
atapci1: <Promise TX2 ATA100 controller> port 0xcc00-0xcc0f,0xd000-0xd003,0xd400-0xd407,0xd800-0xd803,0xdc00-0xdc07 mem 0xcfff0000-0xcfffffff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0
[...]
ar0: 39100MB <ATA RAID1 array> [4984/255/63] subdisks:
ad4: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata2-master tagged UDMA100
ad6: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata3-master tagged UDMA100
I set the BIOS option 'Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA' to Disabled since it would
share the same IRQ as the Promise one.
I'm currently trying to install a system monitor deamon, but I'm facing problem
with the onboard hardware monitor ITE8705. Which program support this sensor?
I tried healthd, but it didn't work.
Finally, if you buy this motherboard, pay attention to the ATX power supply.
I couldn't get 'shutdown -p now' to work, even if APM is compiled into the
kernel, apm -s returns 1 and zzz put the system to sleep (i.e. the software
is properly configured).
Conclusion: this motherboard is cheap and stable and, more important, does
not suffer the data corruption problem of the VIA KTxxx chipsets. I like it.
Francesco Casadei
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