Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:12:29 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VIA 82C686 + HPT-370 BIOS... Message-ID: <3E6BA02D.5010403@mac.com>
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Hi, -questions: I needed to set up an Intel box to replicate a Sun E450 fileserver with ten HDs, while my employer moves to a new office. I'm using an Abit KT7A-RAID MB + four identical WD1200JB's in a RAID-0+1 config via the HPT-370. The device is recognized as: ar0: 228946MB <ATA RAID0+1 array> [29186/255/63] status: READY 1) Checking the handbook led me to atacontrol(4). However, "man 4 ar" doesn't seem relevant, nor could I find references to device ar0 in (or via) the ata(4) manpage. Is more documentation available on device ar0? 2) Does the Highpoint-370 mirror a 2-disk stripe, or does it stripe onto two mirrors? In other words, will it stay up in the face of (some) multiple disk failure scenarios? atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug I'm familiar with the notion that there is some sort of PCI timing issue affecting large (100+ MB) IDE-to-IDE data transfers via DMA, and was often made worse if certain sound cards were present. Unfortunately, that sounds highly applicable to me. So what am I in for? 3) Does this message indicate that FreeBSD has a software workaround for the issue, or am I still taking a risk of data corruption? I've got a recent BIOS (kt77n?) w/ "HPT 370 RAID BIOS version 1.11.0402", if that matters. Thanks, -Chuck 'dmesg' output: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 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 4.7-RELEASE-p7 #1: Tue Mar 4 18:52:23 EST 2003 root@list.precipice.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NORMAL Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (1100.05-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> AMD Features=0xc0440000<<b18>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory = 201261056 (196544K bytes) avail memory = 192212992 (187708K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0383000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00fdee0 apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <VIA 8363 (Apollo KT133) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 5 isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xc000-0xc00f at device 7.1 on pci0 atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3057) at 7.4 fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xcc00-0xcc3f mem 0xe9000000-0xe90f ffff,0xe9100000-0xe9100fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:02:b3:17:33:2a inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto atapci1: <HighPoint HPT370 ATA100 controller> port 0xe000-0xe0ff,0xdc00-0xdc03,0 xd800-0xd807,0xd400-0xd403,0xd000-0xd007 irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xd000 on atapci1 ata3: at 0xd800 on atapci1 orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc8fff,0xcc000-0xccfff on isa0 fdc0: ready for input in output fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 DUMMYNET initialized (011031) ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device ad0: 78167MB <Maxtor 4W080H6> [158816/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ar0: 228946MB <ATA RAID0+1 array> [29186/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad4: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33 1 READY ad6: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA33 2 READY ad5: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA33 3 READY ad7: 114473MB <WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1> [232581/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B> at ata0-slave PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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