Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 03:04:06 GMT From: "Simson L. Garfinkel" <simsong@acm.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: amd64/73369: on-board firewire unreliable with Asus K8V SE motherboard and AMD64 FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <200411010304.iA13461F001898@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200411010310.iA13AA2u019533@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 73369 >Category: amd64 >Synopsis: on-board firewire unreliable with Asus K8V SE motherboard and AMD64 FreeBSD 5.3 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-amd64 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 01 03:10:10 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Simson L. Garfinkel >Release: 5.3 >Organization: MIT >Environment: FreeBSD r3.nitroba.com 5.3-RC1 FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 #0: Sat Oct 30 13:05:38 EDT 2004 simsong@r3.nitroba.com:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/R3 amd64 >Description: I don't know if this is worth fixing or not, but it is certainly worth documenting. I hav e abrand new AMD64 machine with a K8V SE motherboard. It's an amazing motherboard with an 800 Mhz system bus, 5 pci slots, a wifi slot, 2 Ultra ATA 133 connectors, 2 serial ATA connectors, 8 USB 2.0 ports, built-in gigabit, and 2 Firewire ports. I have a bunch of firewire drives. WHen I attach the drives to the motherboard, it gets the bus reset but it usually doesn't create the /dev entries for the drives. I try resetting the bus with the fwcontrol command. That doesn't work either. Here is what is printed on the console: fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: BUS reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=2, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me) firewire0: bus manager 1 (me) fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=1 fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=2 fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=3 fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=4 firewire0: bus_explore failed for 1 nodes fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: BUS reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=3, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me) firewire0: bus manager 1 (me) fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=1 fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=2 fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=3 fwohci0: txd err= 3 miss Ack err firewire0: bus_explore node=0 addr=0x400 resp=22 retry=4 firewire0: bus_explore failed for 1 nodes [simsong@r3 ~] 306 % I plug in a standard Firewire card and it works just fine. >How-To-Repeat: Buy this motherboard. Or don't. >Fix: Don't use the on-board firewire. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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