Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:33:33 -0500 From: Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <47503B5D.2050408@terranova.net> In-Reply-To: <604474.65019.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <604474.65019.qm@web63908.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Barney Cordoba wrote: > --- Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net> wrote: > >> Barney Cordoba wrote: >>> --- Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: >>> >>>> At 02:26 AM 11/29/2007, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>>> >>>>> May be here is different HW revisions? You have >> an >>>> old revision and >>>>> now people with this bug have a new revision? >>>>> I don't see in the this thread any verbose dmesg >> or >>>> pciconf outputs. >>>>> So, people, who have problems and who don't have >>>> it, can you show >>>>> your `pciconf -l`? >>>> My board works well and has since the 6.1 days >> > >>> I think we've established that 6.x works and 7.x >>> doesn't. >>> >>> Barney >> Not mine, I'm afraid. >> >> See post from yesterday where I tried 6.2 and 6.3 on >> my Tyan S3950 and >> it worked poorly. >> >> Not sure what the major difference between one >> HT1000 board and another >> could be, but mine seems to be in the most-afflicted >> category. I count >> myself lucky that it works as well as it does with >> RELENG_7 so long as I >> avoid the PCI-X slot or the on-board SATA. > > It seems to me it makes more sense to use a different > MB than avoiding the slot and not using SATA. One of > the attractions of the HT1000 is the SATA performance. I have three of them already so.. I'd like them to work. I consider the broken status temporary and the SiI3114 controllers a temporary workaround. And of course I'd like FreeBSD to work well for everybody else on this platform. > Are you sending Soren a MB, or what is the status of > that? Yes, I corresponded with Søren privately and I am going to send him a Tyan S3950 kit, he was unable to reproduce the issue on his specific HT1000-based hardware. -- TerraNovaNet Internet Services - Key Largo, FL Voice: (305)453-4011 x101 Fax: (305)451-5991 http://www.terranova.net/ ---------------------------------------------- Life's not fair, but the root password helps.
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