From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 20:22:07 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 EF8FE1065674; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:22:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amsibamsi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F438FC1F; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb29 with SMTP id 29so619837wyb.13 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:22:05 -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=nf2XUz6JHsImx6QgZRcF7F2bn7xzVyJzr7f4lDNMwmA=; b=FZAI0mBVlKFpV2xSapKvuFolVpjkgeFpS7P7INxKFy97TnCQPKkVF4tH/5io2pfHj+ EpoLwf6e8+ZFOWisz5/q1Cx6WmYBi04UIl03jWryhdysFCAkf8wuGSLmiDM7DSrRBJAi /kFZ9FvMTaslOK7bXr9m5AHD78C2+nTcWVtXc= 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=oBin4wha7RGNyJY49hmlpAixmvCAWbjOGOSQeIAGz3uQCFqsoL6bo/nfKkM9mIlaIh UxxFiTXhDeZOo9IxiWsumxHe9fejiiQLOzWkVXXXgvGvIy3j5yTlc/Cz6ScvssrTY2bq eXJL9a262DHDnwXyNTv1iD+rmTkGNrFe51HTI= Received: by 10.227.127.193 with SMTP id h1mr1339823wbs.139.1286482925475; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:22:05 -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 a17sm52692wbe.6.2010.10.07.13.22.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CAE2BEA.1020003@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:22:02 +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> <4CAE29B8.8010304@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CAE29B8.8010304@gmail.com> 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 20:22:07 -0000 On 10/07/10 22:12, Anselm Strauss wrote: > 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 Sorry, wrong URL: http://pcengines.ch/alix.htm