From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 18:24:22 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 7462C16A419 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:24:22 +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 4398F13C467 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bofh@terranova.net) Received: from [216.89.228.170] (host-216-89-228-170.wireless.terranova.net [216.89.228.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tog.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7876129B5F6 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:24:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <474477CE.3030805@terranova.net> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:24:14 -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: <826454.61528.qm@web63913.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <200711210838.18781.fjwcash@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200711210838.18781.fjwcash@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: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:24:22 -0000 Freddie Cash wrote: > On November 21, 2007 04:26 am Barney Cordoba wrote: >> It would be a major >> black eye to the project to say "FreeBSD 7 is >> released, but BTW, if you have a supermicro or tyan >> opteron system it won't work at all". > > The HT1000 is only 1 of the Opteron chipsets available from Tyan, and it's > only available on their 1 socket boards (the Tomcats). The dual- and > quad- socket boards either use AMD or AMD+nVidia chipsets (Socket > 939/940), or nVidia chipsets (Socket AM2). Out of their entire lineup, > the HT1000 makes up maybe 10% of the chipsets used by Tyan. > > I'd hardly call that a "black eye". And it's only the onboard SATA > controller that has issues. Pop in a proper RAID controller, and it's no > longer an issue. Hate to sound like a broken record but that's exactly what I did and I ran into the same nasty data corruption problem on that controller, too. That was a little frustrating. atapci0@pci0:2:3:0: class=0x010000 card=0x11ab11ab chip=0x608111ab rev=0x09 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)' device = 'MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller' class = mass storage subclass = SCSI I don't want a hardware RAID or a "software RAID" controller, I just want normal SATA ports with no RAID so I can use ZFS :) I find myself much preferring ZFS to any other data management solution I have ever used, including 3ware hardware RAID which was my previous favorite. Another thing I haven't tried yet is a 3ware 9500 series PCI-X controller in my HT1000 board's PCI-X slot to see if that's also broken or if it's just a PCI-X + ata(4) specific problem. I'll reply with the result of that when I get to trying it out. >> Someone was complaining 2 years ago that they didn't >> have hardware to do the work. Is the FreeBSD project >> really so poorly funded that they can't get their >> hands on a $150 motherboard for 2 years? > > Ever considered sending one in? :) I am considering it. Are any reputable FreeBSD developers interested in this problem that could benefit from having the problematic hardware in their posession? -- 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.