From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 15:29:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BF616A41F for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 15:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from eskimo.tundraware.com (eskimo.tundraware.com [66.92.130.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C62B13C448 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 15:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (eskimo.tundraware.com [66.92.130.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by eskimo.tundraware.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4UFTi62002315 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 10:29:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <465D9867.40804@tundraware.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:29:43 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <4659DB64.2010608@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <4659DB64.2010608@tundraware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Problems w/Intel D946GZIS + Pentium D (Possible SMP Problem) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:29:55 -0000 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Just bought: > > Intel D946GZIS MOBO w/ICH7 SATA-II support > WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 250G Hard Drive that claims to do 3G/s > Pentium D @ 3.2GHz > > In addition to the on-board peripherals, the two available > PCI slots have an Adaptec 2930CU SCSI controller and > a 3Com 3C901 card in them respectively. > > I've run into a problem that makes no sense to me and I suspect > is related to how SMP works (or, then again, maybe not): > > 1) When booting FBSD 6.2, right after the second CPU is started > the system hangs for about 45 seconds and then proceeds normally. > This happens with GENERIC-Release, SMP-Stable, and SMP-Release kernels. > During this wait, the floppy goes active for some reason. > At first, I thought this was somehow related to the 2nd CPU being fired up, but after looking at /var/log/messages I doubt this is it. It seems that the long delay is somehow related with the system trying to mount the SATA drive (ads4a). What is strange is that: a) A SATA-300 drive/controller are seen as SATA-150 and b) That the floppy drive goes active during this long pause as the system "hunts" to mount the drive. Does any of this make sense to you hardware/driver geniuses out there? Other than these two boot-time problems, the system appears to be stable and work well. I'm just concenred I have to way during each boot and am not able to get full drive/controller performance.