From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 15:55:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592A816A418; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA61813C4A7; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:55:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA6Fs3cS063035; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:54:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <47308E19.70507@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:54:01 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <200711041119.45971.jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> <472DD231.9030501@gmail.com> <472E67CC.9040201@delphij.net> <472E4FF0.3080801@gmail.com> <472EB211.7050001@delphij.net> <472EEADF.1000008@gmail.com> <472F466E.8050405@delphij.net> <472F5846.1020304@gmail.com> <472F5D9A.9050900@delphij.net> <20071106153509.GB91218@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20071106153509.GB91218@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:54:04 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Aryeh M. Friedman" , Justin Hibbits , "Sean C. Farley" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:55:45 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:37:27AM -0600, Sean C. Farley wrote: >> 1. Dell Optiplex 745: >> ATA channel 2: >> Master: ad4 Serial ATA II >> Slave: no device present > > Intel Q965 + ICH8, which does SATA300. atacontrol output proves the > disk is capable of SATA300 (re: "Serial ATA II"), but for some reason > it's not. > SATA II does not automatically mean 3GHz link speed. It's just an umbrella term meaning that the drive implements one or more features defined in SATA-2. It's similar to the mis-representation in the USB world of what USB 2.0 means. > This one is indeed odd and needs investigation. > >> 2. Asus P5K-E/WiFi: >> ad10: 152627MB at ata5-master SATA150 >> ad12: 152627MB at ata6-master SATA150 >> ATA channel 5: >> Master: ad10 Serial ATA v1.0 >> Slave: no device present >> ATA channel 6: >> Master: ad12 Serial ATA v1.0 >> Slave: no device present > > Intel P35 + ICH9. The chipset does SATA300 but your disks do not -- > they are Barracuda 7200.7 disks, which support SATA150 maximum. > However, the motherboard also has a JMicron controller on it. > > After looking at http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/SATA/dmesg-asus.boot, > it's easy to determine that your SATA150 disks are connected to the ICH9 > controller (which is being reported at ICH8 for some reason; maybe a > chipset ID thing). They are not connected to the JMicron, so the > SATA150 limitation here is caused by the disks. > > The SATA ATAPI errors you see are something I can't really help with, > many see these kinds of messages on all sorts of hardware. > There seems to be a lot of differing technical opinions on SATA-ATAPI support in FreeBSD. I'll be digging more into it shortly, but probably not in time for the 7.0 release. Scott