From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 26 5:42:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D3637B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:42:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr (puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr [139.124.41.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD6A43EAF for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:42:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr) Received: from puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAQAjDkI079381; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:45:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr) Received: from localhost (rv@localhost) by puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gAQAj481079357; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:45:08 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr: rv owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:45:04 +0100 (CET) From: Herve Quiroz X-X-Sender: rv@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr To: Justin Sheehy Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SiS 962L/SiS 962 IDE controller vs UltraDMA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021126113839.R57572-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Justin, Any chance of having the following commited to -CURRENT ? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=43345 It may not solve the whole thing but it would allow us (I have a SiS651/SiS962 motherboard) to install FreeBSD "as-is", that is without any UltraDMA disabling or kernel sources post-installation patch. I am asking this because I dual-boot FreeBSD/WindowsXP and XP without DMA is even worse (if possible) than with it (regarding performance and CD burning). Regards, -Herve On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Justin Sheehy wrote: > Hello, > > This is simply an informative post, intended to help anyone else > attempting to use FreeBSD with a SiS 962L/SiS 962 IDE/ATA disk controller. > > The hardware notes for CURRENT show the following: > > SiS 530, 540, 620 > SiS 630, 633, 635, 645, 730, 733, 735, 740, 745, 750 > SiS 5591 ATA100 > > ...so the controller is technically unsupported. > > The controller in question is integrated on an MSI motherboard, model MS-6533E. > > If you boot such a host with a 4.4R or 5.0-DP1 cdrom, it gets to the > "Probing devices" splash screen and then hangs forever. With a 4.7R > disc, you get to see the actual messages: > > ad0 READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. > > However, it can be made to work. Disabling UltraDMA in the BIOS will > allow one to use this controller, at least under 4.7-RELEASE. > > A bit suboptimal, but far better than nothing. > > Regards, > > -Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message