From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 20 13:50:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9367637C048; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-ra-nc1-22.netcologne.de [195.14.244.22]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13287; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:46:50 +0100 (MET) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA78939; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:47:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:47:04 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200002202147.WAA78939@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> (message from Andreas Klemm on Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:37:12 +0100) Subject: ABIT Hod Rod 66 Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <20000220190651.A27410@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <4.1.20000220202241.009539a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> <20000220213711.A62313@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Andreas! > Well, then I'll have to buy an 80-wire cable tomorrow as well. I bought an ABIT Hot Rod 66 controller two weeks ago together with a Maxtor 27 GB/7200 drive. The board offers two Ultra DMA 66 channels (= 4 devices) and is based on the HPT366 chipset. In this case you probably don't need to buy an 80-wire cable, as the package includes one such cable (for up to 2 devices). I paid DM 69 for it. Here is the related dmesg output: ata-pci0: irq 0 at device 1.1 on pci0 ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA not enabled ata-pci1: irq 15 at device 11.0 on pci0 ata-pci1: Busmastering DMA supported ata2 at 0x6300 irq 15 on ata-pci1 ata-pci2: irq 15 at device 11.1 on pci0 ata-pci2: Busmastering DMA supported ad0: ATA-5 disk at ata2 as master ad0: 26059MB (53369568 sectors), 52946 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, UDMA66 It is from a -CURRENT from January, 2nd. You might notice the ata-pci0 device, this is the built in Ultra DMA 33 controller of my Gigabyte 586S2 mother board, despite my efforts to desactivate it through the according AWARD BIOS settings. As far as I can judge, the ATA controller/hd combination seems to work under FreeBSD. Unfortunately I can't test it really because I experience the same effect here that I do when I put some load on my Audio PCI soundcard - when putting load on the Hot Rod, sooner or later the Asus SC200 (ncr 810 based) SCSI controler goes nuts (and the system hangs on the next swap in). I have no clue why, the theories range from interrupt problems due to the SC200 not being PCI 2.1 compliant to some flaw in my motherboard. Thus I decided to buy a new SCSI controller. I looked for a DAWICONTROL first, but Stefan Esser pointed me to Tekram. Because of their FreeBSD support I bought the Tekram DC-390F. World is building in the background now and when this is done, I will change the SCSI controller and hope to have the troubles resolved. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message