From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 23:26:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7421065670 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:26:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danolson100@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA798FC12 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 23:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so7651997iwn.13 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:26:47 -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:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5RaTrHp2jJf3/PiwPo/RDb2/dN5zARe/5UEKcFd5f+I=; b=v0IC8294ccX/cAkOlMnsMLy7NM2EbiJ4p4fc+/YXMobjD2iTBF2AR7odA9zRa7o2Tg XzS9OjR226gmwfGu5/z4/9YPsQnEXdp7WN8kKmeMraZvpEdgcimm2WfoUJk+uZdRwLx+ eOJRJnj0DbxeTiMgcomA2gfaMg5KNDuUEqHs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DkWVcEa5kscryLsZF93FTyNwEd6VYkO9QZDuxzdmN8wCCQRXdcENUdI+5EfHfXg0GW bw8+hT1oBRIKFhwC2bv9tTOO1XwRByPvhLKFE4spSTn+7dn/wR1bB6SgdGFDZeYFwp2E 56v2pPAnu22eIMVKLBQC2U6eGDu7VjIQuDKdM= Received: by 10.231.35.131 with SMTP id p3mr14153839ibd.177.1288652661871; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:04:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.240.150] (174-20-71-107.mpls.qwest.net [174.20.71.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w9sm9011157ibc.13.2010.11.01.16.04.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CCF4772.30504@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:04:18 -0500 From: Dan Olson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, judmarc@fastmail.fm References: <1288613544.13669.1402968563@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1288613544.13669.1402968563@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Doesn't "See" Crucial C300 SSD on Marvell Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:26:48 -0000 On 11/1/2010 7:12 AM, Jud wrote: > The old desktop gave up the ghost after many years of use (memory > problems plus a hard drive with an increasing number of bad sectors), > and I've just finished putting together a new one. Win7 x64 and Ubuntu > amd64 are running on it, and I would dearly love to install FreeBSD. > > Hardware is an ASUS Rampage III Formula motherboard with a Crucial C300 > 256GB SATA 6GB/s-capable SSD connected to one of the motherboard's two > internal SATA 6GB/s ports. These two ports use a Marvell 88SE9128 > onboard chip as the controller. The controller is supposed to support > (hardware) RAID, but of course with one drive I am using it in "normal" > non-RAID mode. (To say this particular controller chip has a > problematic reputation at the moment is a bit of an understatement. > I've personally seen some weirdness, including the Crucial drive not > showing up in the BIOS boot priority menu a time or two. Nevertheless, > as I said Winders and Ubuntu are running and I'm really looking forward > to having my favorite OS on my new box.) I also have two Hitachi > Deskstar drives and a USB stick. > > I tried the October amd64 DVD snapshot of -CURRENT from the snapshots > page, guessing it would have the latest hardware support. The DVD boots > into the installer, but sysinstall only shows me the Deskstars and the > USB stick as options to install to. > > Puttering around the lists trying to find something that has any chance > of being relevant, I ran across this excerpt from a post to the > freebsd-current list in October: > > **************************************************************************** >>> In an attempt to get more information about this issue, I'd like to ask >>> people on freebsd-current if they're using any Sandforce-based SSDs with >>> FreeBSD. So far, it appears not a lot of people do, making it hard to >>> debug this issue (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151608). >> >> MCP5x SATA are not the best controllers for compatibility testing. They >> have enough problems on their own, even without Sandforce. >> >> When you tested Marvell, have you tried to use mvs(4) driver? > > No, I only tried to use ata(4). I tried using mvs(4) now, and that > works! > > mvs0: port 0x4000-0x40ff mem > 0xb0100000-0xb01fffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci1 > mvs0: Gen-II, 8 3Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported > mvsch0: at channel 0 on mvs0 > mvsch1: at channel 1 on mvs0 > mvsch2: at channel 2 on mvs0 > mvsch3: at channel 3 on mvs0 > mvsch4: at channel 4 on mvs0 > mvsch5: at channel 5 on mvs0 > mvsch6: at channel 6 on mvs0 > mvsch7: at channel 7 on mvs0 > > ada0 at mvsch0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 > ada0: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device > ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 2048bytes) > ada0: Command Queueing enabled > ada0: 85857MB (175836528 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) > > **************************************************************************** > > I don't know enough to understand whether "using mvs" has a chance of > working for me. If it might, how do I "use mvs" when attempting to > install? (The DVD does have the fixit environment available.) > > Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions, > > Jud Try the ahci driver or lower the speed to 3Gbps and see if that works. Dan