Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:20:40 -0700 From: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unsupported NVIDIA SATA controller Message-ID: <20080916112040.A27758@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <1221563567.13651.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>; from gavin@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:12:47PM %2B0100 References: <20080915192515.A13327@eskimo.com> <1221563567.13651.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:12:47PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 19:25 -0700, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have the following SATA controller card on my system that appears to
> > be unsupported by FreeBSD 7-STABLE. Does anybody know if this card is
> > supported or will be supported in the near future?
> >
> > /*** Begin change #2 ***/
> > [/usr/src/sys/dev/ata]
> > joji@snow> diff -u ata-chipset.c ata-chipset.c.orig
> > --- ata-chipset.c 2008-09-15 20:47:55.000000000 -0500
> > +++ ata-chipset.c.orig 2008-09-15 20:40:43.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -3051,7 +3051,6 @@
> > { ATA_NFORCE_MCP65, 0, AMDNVIDIA, NVIDIA, ATA_UDMA6, "nForce MCP65" },
> > { ATA_NFORCE_MCP67, 0, AMDNVIDIA, NVIDIA, ATA_UDMA6, "nForce MCP67" },
> > { ATA_NFORCE_MCP73, 0, AMDNVIDIA, NVIDIA, ATA_UDMA6, "nForce MCP73" },
> > - { ATA_NFORCE_MCP73_S1, 0, 0, NV4|NVQ, ATA_SA300, "nForce MCP73" },
> > { ATA_NFORCE_MCP77, 0, AMDNVIDIA, NVIDIA, ATA_UDMA6, "nForce MCP77" },
> > { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}} ;
> > /*** End change #2 ***/
>
> Before you do anything, can you get a verbose DMESG and stick it online
> somewhere? This may well help identify why the above isn't working.
http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/nvidia_sata/snow_dmesg-v.txt
> Secondly, you could try changing the line you've added to be:
>
> { ATA_NFORCE_MCP73_S1, 0, AMDNVIDIA, NVIDIA, ATA_SA300, "nForce MCP73" },
>
> although to be honest, I'm not expecting that to fix things for you. If
> it doesn't, then it looks like this chip may need special support.
Made the change suggested above. Building a new kernel. Will provide
update after installation and boot-up of new kernel.
> Because the chip identifies itself as a RAID controller and not as a
> standard IDE controller, the generic code does not attach to it either.
> You could override this behaviour by removing your patch and using the
> attached patch. If nothing else, that may well get you working at
> UDMA33, which is the most the "generic" ATA controller support can do.
> Again, if this fails, stick a verbose dmesg online somewhere.
>
> The real solution, of proper support for the chip, may not be possible
> until either documentation is available for it, or another OS
> (Linux/*BSD/OpenSolaris) support it.
I do have Ubuntu installed on a disk connected to the above mentioned
SATA controller. The dmesg from Ubuntu is at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/nvidia_sata/dmesg_ubuntu.txt
The output of "lspci -vv" from Ubuntu is at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/nvidia_sata/lspci-vv.txt
I am not clear if Ubuntu is recognizing the SATA hard disk as ATA or
SATA. I suspect it is being recognized as a ATA disk because of the
following lines from Ubuntu dmesg:
[ 23.044251] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfea7c000 port
0xfea7c100 irq 508
[ 23.044253] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfea7c000 port
0xfea7c180 irq 508
[ 23.044256] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfea7c000 port
0xfea7c200 irq 508
[ 23.044258] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfea7c000 port
0xfea7c280 irq 508
[ 23.682254] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 23.682854] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3250410AS, 3.AAF, max UDMA/133
But the following line confusing:
[ 23.682254] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> Out of interest, what motherboard is this on?
>
> Gavin
Is there a way to find out the motherboard details without opening up
the box?
If nothing else works, I will back out all my changes and install your
patch and see how it goes.
Thanks very much for helping.
regards,
joseph
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