From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 19:46:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3B316A41A for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hg@queue.to) Received: from pickle.queue.to (pickle.queue.to [71.180.69.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF5A13C457 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hg@queue.to) Received: (qmail 65201 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2007 15:46:31 -0400 Received: from cally.queue.to (172.16.0.6) by pickle.queue.to with ESMTP; 16 Sep 2007 15:46:31 -0400 Message-ID: <46ED8817.3040400@queue.to> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:46:31 -0400 From: Howard Goldstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070802) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, karl@denninger.net References: <20070915223649.GA6439@FS.denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <20070915223649.GA6439@FS.denninger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Question regarding Intel ICH7 motherboard and integrated RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:46:32 -0000 Karl Denninger wrote: > Hi folks; > > I have a new Intel ICH7 board here that has Quad-core support. > > It works well EXCEPT.... > > It has an on-board RAID controller with some internal buffer memory. There's a known issue with an interrupt storm when the ICH7R is configured for AHCI or RAID, and a pr was filed back in July(don't have the number, search for interrupt storm on atapci1+). The suspicion was that some peripheral no one has identified yet is hammering the apic and we can't mask it. The workaround is to set the BIOS for IDE mode. It's a bit of a drag because SATA-II mode isn't reached when in IDE mode, only in AHCI (and RAID?) mode. If you don't panic when you set it for IDE mode then you've probably run into the same problem. On the plus side FreeBSD on the Q6600 *rocks* and our geom stuff does the RAIDdy stuff nicely for a software solution. I sympathize with you as I spent most of the day yesterday trying to work this same problem.