From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 23:32:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BBF10656A4 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCF38FC1B for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:32:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LFY00IJ5MLFNI10@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:32:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([84.48.120.77]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LFY00I6BMLF6IJ0@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:32:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:32:03 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <20110201233203.c530230f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: <4D485C50.3040600@gmx.de> References: <4D485C50.3040600@gmx.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Cc: Subject: Re: Check 64 bit DMA from Disk-Controller (amd64/135040) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:32:06 -0000 Hello, On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:17:36 +0100 Ralf Folkerts wrote: > My SB600 ATA-Controller used to cause massive Problems (from disk not > being detected at all to disk being detected but later "trashed" during > buildworld) with DMA with 4G RAM. I circumvented that by setting > "hw.physmem=4g", as recommended by John Baldwin. Interesting. I have a machine[1] with the SB600, but so far it has mostly been running FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x / amd64. However, I recently installed Linux (Ubuntu) on a partition on that same machine, and it shows some interesting things in dmesg output: [ 0.698790] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.5: applying AMD SB600/SB700 USB freeze workaround [ 1.448022] ata3: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying [ 1.449522] ata4: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying [ 1.619986] ata4.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd [ 1.626505] ata4.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd [ 1.632688] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd [ 1.634745] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd which may or may not be related. According the the bios upgrade info for mny machine, some usb problem has been fixed by the latest bios upgrade (the machine used to hang when booting if any usb devices were plugged in). I haven't seen any trouble with the disk controller (but the machine has only had a single disk attached until recently). References: 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi -- Torfinn