From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 19:08:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74FC16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:08:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4F143D45 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:08:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3D4D335B7; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:08:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:08:10 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: lZo32FtEsLaiT1xXNSWvzYL+Hm6Ho3vyAegPBu5ZSW7d 1139080088 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (24.115.237.157.res-cmts.sm.ptd.net [24.115.237.157]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41D557146C; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:08:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43E4FB29.1070708@fastmail.fm> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:06:17 -0500 From: Jud User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (Windows/20060128) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ville Lundberg References: <43E0D226.3050406@juiceless.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise SATAII150 TX2plus ok for 6.0? 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: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:08:12 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 2/1/06, Ville Lundberg wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> being quite fed up with the crappy Sil3512 SATA-controller on my >> mainboard (write_dma timeouts, and just when I thought 6.0-release fixed >> it, "setfeatures set transfer mode semaphore timeout"-messages is >> filling my screens), I'm looking after good replacements. Browsing the >> web and the mailing list archives, Promise cards have been praised. I >> could get my hands on a SATAII150 TX2plus, anyone having good/bad >> experiences with such a card? >> >> > > After I patched my FreeBSD 5.4 server with the ata-mkIII patches my > FastTrak TX2300 worked fine. Those patches are in FreeBSD 6 now. I'm > not sure if the RAID rebuild stuff is working yet in FreeBSD 6, I have > not updated that system yet, but you can always rebuild the array from > the BIOS. > > The Bad: > This card does not play nice with other RAID controllers, esp. cards > from other companies. This card would hang my server at POST if I had > my HighPoint SATA-II RAID 5 card installed. Dealing with Promise's > tech support dude was bad, very bad. On the other hand when I spoke > with one of HighPoint's tech's (5pm on a Friday) he was both friendly > and competent, about 5 minutes in we had the problem with the Promise > card solved. > I've experienced the "setfeatures..." problem with the TX2300, with 2 different FreeBSD versions: latest -CURRENT (after installing an updated kernel, when beginning installworld, "setfeatures..." messages repeat until a hard reboot), and an up-to-date -CURRENT userland with kernel from December 8th 2005. (That setup worked until I got a system hang trying to run glxgears with an ATI R300 card. Afterward, when bootup got to the point of fs checking, "setfeatures..." ad infinitum again.) So far, -CURRENT userland and kernel from December 8th are working OK, but I haven't done anything to unduly stress the system. Jud