From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 18:33:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B409416A4B3 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 18:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D241943FDD for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 18:33:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-192-168-1-121.computinginnovations.com [192.168.1.121]) (authenticated bits=0)h961X91G000429; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 20:33:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20031005201310.011a2b08@www.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@www.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:33:09 -0500 To: Soren Schmidt , current@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030930160757.011dcc00@www.computinginnovations .com> References: <200309302006.h8UK6ec0025565@spider.deepcore.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 01:33:13 -0000 S=F8ren, The SATA seems better, but is still not working. I tried the Oct 5=20 snapshot, doing a clean install. I CVSup'd and did make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DGENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=3DGENERIC reboot to single user mount -a swapon -a mergemaster -p make installworld System has the same DMA write problems. In this recent case it was=20 installing termcap. I tried the Oct 1 snapshot and it was the same, it=20 errored in installworld installing tar. The SATA is stabler as I can buildworld, but not stable enough to handle=20 the installworld copies. Here is what I copied from the console after it went into the debugger: spec_getpages I/O Read failure(error=3D5) vm_fault: pager read error panic: initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started Let me know if you want more information. I will have to reinstall to get= =20 a dmesg, if you want a new one. -Derek At 04:09 PM 9/30/2003 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: >Great news to hear S=F8ren. > >Do you know when a snapshot with the fix will be available? Since I=20 >cannot complete a buildworld using the SATA drive without the fix. > >Thanks for the fix. > > -Derek > > >At 10:06 PM 9/30/2003 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > >>I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems >>to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip. >> >>Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the >>WD Raptor fx is not a real SATA device but just a PATA device >>with a build in PATA->SATA converter chip) it works just fine >>no matter what I try. >> >>If however I use an older PATA drive and a certain PATA->SATA "dongle" >>(in this case 1 out of 4 samples) I can reproduce the problem pretty >>easily. >> >>This suggests to me that we are looking at a timing problem of sorts >>the question is where. >> >>I'll work on the problem as time permits... >> >>-S=F8ren >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >