From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 04:16:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2607216A4BF for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 04:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B574543FCB for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 04:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 64964 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2003 12:16:39 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-129-60.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (217.162.129.60) by 0 with SMTP; 26 Oct 2003 12:16:39 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:17:04 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <177159126750.20031026131704@buz.ch> To: current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: ATAng: completely broken? Trouble with HPT370 on 4.9RC3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:16:43 -0000 ATAng seems to cause nothing but trouble for me. It won't recognize HPT370 arrays at all (whereas older 5.1 Kernels work perfectly) and just goes on complaining it can't mount root from it. Promise RAID is somewhat better (can mount root from it but goes on telling me one of the subdisks is down when it clearly isn't) and finally it doesn't seem to even recognize disks connected to a VIA VT8325 southbridge at all. Silicon Image SATA seems to work at times (no RAID at all though) but then starts throwing timeouts under make buildworld loads whereas CVSUP works nicely as far as I can tell. Further, 4.9RC3 also gives me headaches with HPT370 but seems to work ok with Promise RAID, didn't try SATA or VT8325 so far. I'd definitely vote for delaying 4.9 until some more people have beaten on the ATA drivers in there (I don't have any Intel machines so I can't check those chipsets). I'll try the same system with 4.8 later today and report if its the hardware or the software (I'd guess the latter as older 5.1 builds worked nicely).