From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 12:03:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D9416A4CF for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 063BA43FE1 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 55338 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Nov 2003 20:02:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 2003 20:02:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3FCA4CAB.2030307@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:01:47 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: HaggeL Subject: Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 30 Nov 2003 20:03:01 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > >>On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: >> >>>Hi Guys :) >>> >>>Sorry if i waste your time. IŽm a freeBSD noob and need some help. >>>I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to >>>buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the "Silicon >>>ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller" onboard (Asus A7N8X Motherboard). I >>>didnŽt find a driver in the Hardware Notes of FreeBSD 5.1, and on the >>>Producer homepage are only ready Linuxkernels avaible >>>(http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/searchDirect/?searchString=Sil+3112A&searchType=allwords&searchby=keywords&r=0.8157617). >>>So can anyone tell me if i can get a SATA disk run? I donŽt want to >>>boot from it, just read and write. Buying a new disk only for windows >>>use is wasted money >> >>We're having a pretty lengthy discussion about these controllers on this >>list right now. I suggest you read the archives. Bottom line, the >>controller is supported, but it's problematic. The ATA maintainer has >>working controllers, but there are those of us that experience data >>corruption, and at least one user that can't use his drive at all when >>connected to said controller. > > > I believe a workaround was recently committed to improve behavior on older > cards using that chipset. Specifically the following change to > ata-chipset.c: > > revision 1.48 > date: 2003/11/28 19:01:28; author: sos; state: Exp; lines: +6 -2 > Workaround for errata on early versions of the sii3112. > > Approved by: re@ > > Does this make any difference in your configuration? > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research > This commit only fixes a silent data corruption issue. I believe that the issue at hand involves DMA not working at all. Scott