Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:54:40 +0000 From: Mark Blackman <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk> To: Conrado Vardanega <cvspam@ig.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD with VIA's vt82c686b South Bridge Message-ID: <20011106145440.A46228@admin4.dircon.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLGPICDCECKDGFCGFEEKFCNAA.cvspam@ig.com.br>; from cvspam@ig.com.br on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:44:05AM -0200 References: <NDBBLGPICDCECKDGFCGFEEKFCNAA.cvspam@ig.com.br>
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I've got a Gigabyte 6VTXDR-C and MegaRAID 500 (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/6vtxdr_c.htm) with this South Bridge in a 2U case + PCI riser and its given me a few problems. a) I see the fxp DMA/SCB timeout on an external network card. The network card "disappeared" after being reseated, i.e. wasn't acknowledged as being present in the system, either at the BIOS level or "pciconf -l" level. Applying the Nov. 2 stable source code change for fxp didn't the timeout. b) The MegaRAID controller intermittently loses knowledge of itself and its disks. Reseating makes no difference. Mostly, this is under control. c) Most bizarrely of all, the reboot command doesn't. The system shuts all the way down, says "Rebooting" and then does nothing. A power cycle/hard reset is required at this stage. Possibly (a) and (b) are due to poor connections and/or dodgy hardware. But (c) is definitely down to an unusual BIOS or motherboard. I've tried with and without PnP OS. My recommendation is don't. I've got a feeling interrupts are handled badly. Think serverworks instead, maybe Tyan or Supermicro. Any ideas about (c)? - Mark On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:44:05AM -0200, Conrado Vardanega wrote: > I own a Asus A7V133 motherboard with vt82c686b South Bridge. > > FreeBSD has some problems booting on this motherboard, frequently freezing > during the boot up. Sometimes it boots with some error messages regarding > the ATA system. No errors occurs when the onboard ATA is disabled. > Therefore, and I'm sure, it's a problem related to the chipset's ATA. The > Promise controller has nothing to do with this and works very well. > > I'm planning to buy a ASUS A7VL-VM for a low-cost server. I'm just worried > how would FreeBSD behave with this chipset. > > My concern is: how many of you are running FreeBSD fine with Asus A7V133, > A7VL-VM or similar motherboards with VT82C686B? > > Thank you. > Conrado > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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