Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 01:06:51 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj.freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com> Subject: Re: Siis(4) does not play well with others! :-( Message-ID: <4DDD7D7B.1000100@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DDD5739.60600@gmail.com> References: <20110515162230.227510@gmx.com> <4DDD5739.60600@gmail.com>
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Jim Bryant wrote: > you have port multiplier working on that? > > i have a generic board (ebay from hong kong) that looks just like the > siis reference board for that chip (1x pcie), and it IDs during > probe/attach as not having port multiplier capability. > > does this capability only show if there is actually a port multiplier > attached? i would have thought that it would show as a capability even > without. siis(4) hardware always supports port multipliers and FIS-based switching. > also, i have a couple of WD Green (EADS) 2TB drives attached to mine > without problem on an intel dq45ek mini-itx mobo (Core2 Duo E8200). > > i have an interest in the above question, as the goal for the mentioned > box is to maintain it as the houshold server, and it's running out of > space with six 2TB drives. > > on a side note, is there a way to do the equiv of atacontrol spindown on > ahci? i get error messages on that command at startup now after > switching to ahci a couple of months ago. this server will ultimately > have 15 drives in it, and i really want spindown capability in ahci. camcontrol idle/standby/sleep ... > Dieter BSD wrote: >>> For now, I can only say that you are still running not the latest driver >>> version. Latest have some delays reduced and report connect time in >>> "us". May be some more of remaining could be replaced with interrupts >>> (specifically on siis hardware), but I need to think and experiment more >>> with it. >>> >> >> I was able to swap cables and put that disk on the JMB363 controller. >> (directly, no port multiplier) I now just get read errors from the disk >> and a "error = 5" message from g_vfs_done(), but no messages from ahci(4) >> at all, and no other problems. >> >> So much for testing the disk before putting it into service. I read the >> entire disk, then wrote the entire disk with 0x00, 0xff, 0x55 and 0xaa, >> reading it back each time into hexdump -C. Put it into service, and >> after 82 GB of real data (on a 2 TB drive) it fails. grumble >> >> My todo list: >> >> 1) Build new kernel with the latest siis(4) and achi(4) bits. >> >> 2) Test if a read error causes achi(4) to lock out Ethernet for too long. >> >> 3) Test with achi(4) with and without a port multiplier. >> >> 3) Test with siis(4) with and without a port multiplier. >> >> >>> Generally, the situation when the system doesn't reboot with the reset >>> button doesn't smell good to me. >>> >> >> FreeBSD does something that disables the soft power switch. I don't >> recall if I've had problems with reset before. Stopping the PM LEDS >> blinking but not doing a full reset seems pretty odd. Something >> important must not be getting reset. I thought Tyan's mainboards were >> supposed to be "tier 1". :-( >> >> I'm still puzzled that one Ethernet responded to ping but another did >> not. -- Alexander Motin
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