From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 15:23:45 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 661F916A418 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:23:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FDA13C516 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:23:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097821A4D80; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:23:45 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:54:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071109114636.Y639@10.0.0.1> <473A675A.2030600@terranova.net> <473A8E8D.1020404@enderzone.com> In-Reply-To: <473A8E8D.1020404@enderzone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711150854.06648.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Ender , Travis Mikalson Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? 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: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:23:45 -0000 On Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:58:37 am Ender wrote: > Travis Mikalson wrote: > > There is definitely a problem. The Tyan S3950G2NR (HT1000) on-board > > SATA controller corrupts my data horribly and so does a Marvell > > 88SX6081 8-port SATA300 controller plugged into the PCI-X slot. > > > > I have had to buy a couple cheap 4-port SiI3114 PCI cards for now to > > be able to use this system with RELENG_7 and ZFS. > > > > Jeff Roberson wrote: > >> I have reports from a user that his install ends up corrupted. I > >> wanted to find out if it was a general problem with this chipset. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Jeff > > > I have several of these machines and i have tried installing Freebsd 6 - > Freebsd 7 beta2 . The general breakdown is as follows. On freebsd 6 PATA > mode works, SATA mode is broken. On freebsd 7 both PATA and SATA mode is > broken. You can not even do a fresh install of 7 beta2. (I have only > been able to use these machines disklessly) You can try this patch for HT1000, but it only affects having the chip in compat mode I think. Index: ata-chipset.c =================================================================== RCS file: /host/cvs/usr/cvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c,v retrieving revision 1.203 diff -u -r1.203 ata-chipset.c --- ata-chipset.c 26 Oct 2007 09:01:06 -0000 1.203 +++ ata-chipset.c 15 Nov 2007 13:53:45 -0000 @@ -4038,7 +4038,7 @@ { ATA_CSB6, 0x00, SWKS100, 0, ATA_UDMA5, "CSB6" }, { ATA_CSB6_1, 0x00, SWKS66, 0, ATA_UDMA4, "CSB6" }, { ATA_HT1000, 0x00, SWKS100, 0, ATA_UDMA5, "HT1000" }, - { ATA_HT1000_S1, 0x00, SWKS100, 4, ATA_SA150, "HT1000" }, + { ATA_HT1000_S1, 0x00, SWKSMIO, 4, ATA_SA150, "HT1000" }, { ATA_HT1000_S2, 0x00, SWKSMIO, 4, ATA_SA150, "HT1000" }, { ATA_K2, 0x00, SWKSMIO, 4, ATA_SA150, "K2" }, { ATA_FRODO4, 0x00, SWKSMIO, 4, ATA_SA150, "Frodo4" }, -- John Baldwin