From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 12:12:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB3C37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E4043FBD for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.42.236]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030309201234.REUV7930.out004.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:12:34 -0600 Message-ID: <3E6BA02D.5010403@mac.com> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:12:29 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VIA 82C686 + HPT-370 BIOS... X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [129.44.42.236] at Sun, 9 Mar 2003 14:12:34 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [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 AMD Features=0xc0440000<,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: on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at 0.0 irq 5 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: 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: (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3057) at 7.4 fxp0: 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: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto atapci1: 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: