Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:44:07 +0200 From: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable Message-ID: <4CA72917.8060209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201009302138.51616.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <4CA3B8F5.80904@gmail.com> <4CA4E0C3.1050707@gmail.com> <201009302138.51616.hselasky@c2i.net>
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On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: >> Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... >> >> On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip >>> with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have observed >>> various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB partition >>> the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports unreadable >>> sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it to /dev/null >>> it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a small fraction >>> of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and two different ALIX >>> boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I tried them on other >>> hardware. >>> >>> As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding >>> timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I >>> have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track this >>> down? >>> >>> Anselm > > If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls under > hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot. > > --HPS Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl. When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems seem gone. Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort: ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8 Thanks, Anselm
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