From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 20:12:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FC81065672; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:12:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amsibamsi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C32E8FC12; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so4593ewy.13 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:12:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=INR+Y2YEmc9cCJIGNa9ifcIp1wF8JJvHBJ02qa+d3x8=; b=ARnhUM1BMEwyze8dGB8b6f/n/FMDMbwtoPIlkhUUL8QVuiL+DJMrFspQWuKft0o2rU EwAKLKwGuNOE7QiRgHY0gp+oQG2Uogi/sU9RqZ+WKhEM98+ewhmRE80MX8y1VASHyrc6 fij6cE5Xyo7ZhSFYzaqaaZQkXcHZrIQtkZ8F0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=GNVY6kv21Qj6Af4DVHKZaZSz/PDkn86bkOEpiMXPuXnw19S8GS3RYAyG03KQEhwJaz k2LPsXtHWMZLtgASxIA+ZeUMF69aLGOTaDE9Zv8TRfVJwj/zmC3ojkKtyBlXWTLqaojF XW2qSMtx1SOe4z6I1Om3trE4zxWoPK0C8Ye5w= Received: by 10.213.30.1 with SMTP id s1mr1971382ebc.57.1286482365408; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hulk.l.ttyv0.net (80-219-18-72.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.219.18.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u3sm201126eeh.7.2010.10.07.13.12.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CAE29B8.8010304@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:12:40 +0200 From: Anselm Strauss User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20101006 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Petter Selasky References: <4CA3B8F5.80904@gmail.com> <201009302138.51616.hselasky@c2i.net> <4CA72917.8060209@gmail.com> <201010021639.11568.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <201010021639.11568.hselasky@c2i.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:12:47 -0000 On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote: >> On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >>> On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: >>>> Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... >>>> >>>> On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion >>>>> chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have >>>>> observed various problems. For example when I run fsck_ufs on a 250 GB >>>>> partition the process gets stuck in biord state and fsck reports >>>>> unreadable sectors. When I do a dd over the whole disk and direct it >>>>> to /dev/null it suddenly returns with no error, but having read only a >>>>> small fraction of the disk. I tried it with two different disks and >>>>> two different ALIX boards. I'm pretty sure the disks are okay since I >>>>> tried them on other hardware. >>>>> >>>>> As far as I know there was some trouble with the chip regarding >>>>> timeouts. Under load after some time the USB just stops responding. I >>>>> have tried 8.0 and 8.1. Is there any known problem? How can I track >>>>> this down? >>>>> >>>>> Anselm >>> >>> If you compile the kernel with USB_DEBUG, then there are some sysctls >>> under hw.usb.ehci which you can tweak. Needs to be set before boot. >>> >>> --HPS >> >> Did not know that there were configurable bug workarounds in sysctl. >> When I set hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug=1 in /boot/loader.conf the problems >> seem gone. >> >> Without this setting I got the following kernel message when dd did abort: >> >> ehci_timeout: xfer=0xc29cd3c8 >> >> >> Thanks, >> Anselm > > Maybe you can report the PCI vendor ID and product so that we can add this > quirk. > > --HPS Not sure what a "PCI vendor ID" is and how to determine it. It's a ALIX 2d2 from http://pcengines.ch/alix. Anselm