From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 11:41:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB5737B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:41:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F7D43FB1 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:41:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2UJfVoi001594; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:41:31 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: John Wilson From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <20030330191736.4538.qmail@web41810.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <9B364FFC-62E7-11D7-99F8-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:41:43 -0000 On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 11:17 US/Pacific, John Wilson wrote: > Hello all. > > I was wondering if there would be a backport of the > ServerWorks GC chipset (CSB6 South bridge) to > 4-Stable. I am only able to obtain "BIOSDMA" support > on my HD's and basic "PIO" support of my CD-RW. I thought that was the optimum configuration. (I have ServerWorks in my Dell 600SC.) My understanding of the problem with the ServerWorks chipset was the inability to recognize slave drives; I still have this problem but have just put the server together so have not worked on it much yet. > I played around with 5.0-Current on this machine and > by utilizing 'atacontrol', I was able to get DMA mode > transfers on all of the installed media. There were > also no stability issues running in this mode either > under 5-Current What were your atacontrol settings, and how did you differentiate the results (dmesg, sysctl)? FWIW, my drive recognition problem exists in 5.0 and 4.7-Stable. I'll forward separately to you a message I received a couple of weeks ago on this or a related issue. KeS