From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 15:39:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relativity.student.utwente.nl (wit389306.student.utwente.nl [130.89.234.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28DCB14F98 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl) Received: by relativity.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3BA961D6D; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:39:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:39:31 +0100 From: "Dave J. Boers" To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: Tom Embt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66 Message-ID: <19991222003931.C455@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Reply-To: djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl References: <385B2944.6ABE249E@cybercable.fr> <19991218021726.A931@relativity.student.utwente.nl> <385B2944.6ABE249E@cybercable.fr> <3.0.3.32.19991221092604.0145e0c8@mail.embt.com> <385FFD94.9BB9C5E2@cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <385FFD94.9BB9C5E2@cybercable.fr>; from herbelot@cybercable.fr on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was > carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to > the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I second that! Running -current since October and never had a serious SMP problem. > I've also got one of these babies (dual 460 @ 2.1V) and I'm wondering if > I should buy a new PSU (300W, instead of the present 250W) - the > reliability is not yet up to par with my ancient (??) P-II (I've got a > crash after a row of "make buildworld"s). Hmm, I only had one nasty kernel panic once during installworld, but I don't think that was hardware related. I must have done at least 50 buildworld's or so since beginning of October; no crashes. My main system is running dual 450 Mhz. Like I said earlier in the thread, it's running on a 300 Watt PS with a couple of extra fans to cool the hard drives, two 7200 RPM disks, 2 network i/f's, scsi, CD reader and writer, tape unit and zipdrive. I think the PS is pressed to its limits because if I add just one more drive (5400 RPM IDE disk) it's over the edge. Those Celeron's must be eating lot's of power (they are 400 Mhz ones running at 75 Mhz bus speed). > Is it possible to directly boot from the HPT-366 controller ? (I know > the BIOS is ok, but is there any problem with the new ata driver ?) I'm doing it currently. The HPT-366 controller is a completely separate device. On my bootup, the system doesn't detect any "normal" ide devices (you can't autotype them in the bios either), then the screen goes blank and the HPT comes up with its disk detection. Next is the Adaptec detection and the boot proceeds. In the BIOS you can choose EXT=[ATA,SCSI] and I have the boot sequence set to EXT,C,A. EXT=ATA. The ATA driver nicely autodetects (from dmesg): ata-pci1: irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0 ata-pci1: Busmastering DMA supported ata2 at 0xb000 irq 11 on ata-pci1 ata-pci2: irq 18 at device 19.1 on pci0 ata-pci2: Busmastering DMA supported ad0: ATA-4 disk at ata2 as master ad0: 17206MB (35239680 sectors), 34960 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA66 I would like to know how HOT other people's processors get. In the stationary situation I have a system core (= processor average) temperature of 46 and a case temperature of 50 degrees Celcius/Centigrade. Don't ask why case temperature is higher than core temperature! I don't get it either. The hard drives are not even above 30 degrees. Maybe it's the graphics board (viper 550 agp): it's doing 1600x1200@85Hz. I once clocked the system at 500 Mhz (83 Mhz bus), which runs fine but then things get way too hot. Regards, Dave Boers. -- God, root, what's the difference? djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message