Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Matthew Gilbert <agilbertm@earthlink.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers Message-ID: <200112270001.fBR01Ns48341@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200112262315.fBQNFue42555@freebsd.dk> <200112262355.fBQNtfK48250@apollo.backplane.com>
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: :: ::> atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on :: ::You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause severe ::data corruption problems if the BIOS does not setup the northbidge ::chip correctly. Please check with your board vendor if they have a ::new updated BIOS that fixes this problem. This is not an ATA specific ::problem, but a problem with the PCI subsystem in general on these ::chips that manifests it self on high PCI load (which the ATA subsytem ::is quite capable of delivering)... :: ::A fix for this is present in -current, and if I get permission from ::the RE, it will go into 4.5 also, but a BIOS fix is by far the right ::way to fix this problem. :: ::-Søren : : Soren, if you post a patch for 4.x I will be happy to follow-up : with Brady. I've been working with Brady for several days now trying : to track down corruption in the vm_page array. I *really* want to know : if a VIA chipset patch solves his problem, because it would : also explain about a dozen similar bug reports over the last 6 months. : (Which would also be good backing to get it into 4.5). Sorry, I meant I'd follow up with Matthew Gilbert. Also, I've been trying to track down a crash in nfs_node that Nils Holland has been having - he appears to have the same chipset and could have the same problem, and he can reproduce the panic very consistently within a few hours. Brady has an older chipset. Are there any known problems with this chipset? pcib1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 isab0: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <VIA 82C586 ATA33 controller> port 0xe400-0xe40f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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