From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 18:28:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C651D16A46B; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7AF13C46A; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF122204AA; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:28:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 23 May 2007 14:28:58 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: +F0GYsithgNLdtdO1cVI2Kd1VTGfX12gWaP9BIXQrVfj 1179944937 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4967DA80F; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:28:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <465487E7.7010509@incunabulum.net> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:28:55 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bruce M. Simpson" References: <46535A83.5050207@incunabulum.net> <200705231108.44939.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4653AB59.2020702@incunabulum.net> <200705231245.06577.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <46546D8F.4040100@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <46546D8F.4040100@incunabulum.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: scottl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AcerLabs/ULi SATA woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:28:58 -0000 A workaround for this issue posted here works for me with 6.2-STABLE: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg87083.html I plan to commit it on HEAD and RELENG_6 as soon as possible, as it fixes the regression introduced last year. It seems acceptable that the AHCI controller be degraded to legacy mode until such time as AHCI mode may be reliably enabled on this hardware. I don't have time to implement a better fix. It seems there has been some Linux activity from the vendor. The controller on my system is the one described in the patch set for Linux: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.2/0825.html Regards, BMS