From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 08:55:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1D3106568E for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:55:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sippysoft.com (gk1.360sip.com [72.236.70.240]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2873C8FC29 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:55:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.0.61] ([204.244.149.125]) (authenticated bits=0) by sippysoft.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8T8sw91063743 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48E097E1.2060101@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:54:57 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Sippy Software, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org References: 48DE7C93.5050506@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-U; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: marius@alchemy.franken.de Subject: Call for testers: Apple ATA DMA X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:55:02 -0000 > I see two issues with acd(4) on sparc64, which, given that > I don't see them with either amd64 or i386 and that there > are no such reports for these archs, I suspect are endian- > bugs (which might be hidden with 32-bit machines though): > a) read-only drives are falsely reported as having write > capabilities in dmesg (this is a rather old bug but so > far this seemed to be a cosmetic problem only) > b) DMA is broken in that file content read is wrong except > for "small" files; there's no data corruption when PIO > mode is forced (this seem to be a recurring bug once > again present in HEAD). > > Do you guys see these problems also with powerpc? Not sure if it's related, but burning CD image to CD-RW media doesn't work on my MacMini, failing with something like "invalid argument". At the same time, erasing the same media works just fine. -Maxim