From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 12:06:33 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 CE2B216A417 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:06:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bofh@terranova.net) Received: from tog.net (tog.net [216.89.226.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A3013C46A for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:06:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bofh@terranova.net) Received: from [216.89.228.172] (unknown [216.89.228.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tog.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0A129B60B for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:06:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47402ABA.9060209@terranova.net> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:06:18 -0500 From: Travis Mikalson Organization: TerraNovaNet Internet Services User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <788063.40083.qm@web63907.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <473F16DA.9040509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <473F16DA.9040509@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:06:33 -0000 Pawel Worach wrote: > Barney Cordoba wrote: >> We can't get any flavor of Freebsd 7 to build or boot >> successfully on an HT1000 MB. We have 2 distinct MBs >> and both have similar problems. >> >> I noticed in the linux driver that they have the >> HT1000 listed in their pci_quirks.c, and have >> "quirk_disable_all_msi" set for it. I have no idea >> what that means, but is FreeBSD doing something >> similar? I haven't tested linux on this system yet, >> but I hope to do so sometime this week. >> > > At the loader(8) prompt set the following two tunables: > hw.pci.enable_msix=0 > hw.pci.enable_msi=0 I just tried this and it didn't help I'm afraid. In more detail: I hooked up my SATA disk to my HT1000 motherboard's onboard SATA controller with those two tunables set to 0 and my data was still horribly corrupted quite quickly. It's just as bad with or without those tunables set to 0. -- 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.