From owner-freebsd-qa Mon Jan 13 23:32:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F372337B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mozone.net (mail.mozone.net [206.165.200.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D20643ED8 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:32:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mki@cyclonus.mozone.net) Received: from cyclonus.mozone.net (localhost.mozone.net [127.0.0.1]) by mozone.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0E7WRHl005787 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:32:27 -0700 Received: (from mki@localhost) by cyclonus.mozone.net (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id h0E7WQuj005786 for qa@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:32:26 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:32:26 -0700 From: mki@03cbd642.mozone.net To: qa@freebsd.org Subject: can't install anything higher than 4.5-R on Gigabyte SR101 Message-ID: <20030114073226.GI17839@cyclonus.mozone.net> Reply-To: mki@03cbd642.mozone.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I apologize in advance if I am directing this to the wrong address, but I am assuming that since you are requesting that you get feedback about tentative releases and their compatibility on different platforms, it would be okay to email the qa@ address. Anyways, the problem: We haven't been able to install anything greater than 4.5-RELEASE on the Gigabyte SR101(T) rackmount servers. A link to the product can be found below: http://networking.gigabyte.com.tw I've included dmesg output from both 4.5-RELEASE and (the post MFC ata code) 4.6-RC for your reference (along with Soeren's debug data). I believe there are open PRs on the issue (can't recall what #s), but they haven't been addressed. Emails to Soeren have also gone unanswered past the initial attempt at identifying the problem (circa 7+ months ago.) Perhaps this is one of those "we could care less about this configuration or controller" issues. If so, it would be most appreciated if you'd make the appropriate note/addendum/errata in the hardware compatibility list indicating that the support for the PDC20265 (Promise FastTrack100) controller is lacking. I'm not sure if the PDC20265 works at all for that matter even in an add-on-card configuration. If this is not the case, and there is hope of this issue being resolved, then it would be also appreciated if someone can followup on the problem. If need be, I can open a brand new PR. We've been desperate to get a bunch of servers that we have had in the field upgraded, but have been unable to because of this 8+ month lingering problem. (Again, 4.5-R works, but anything past the massive ata-fudge-mfc in 4.5-stable circa march 2002 triggers the problem.) Thanks for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Mohan --- dmesg and console outputs follow --- Console: serial port BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/1047488kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (mki@cam2, Thu May 23 23:25:52 MST 2002) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /kernel text=0x2c7c55 data=0x46d94+0x3dea0 syms=[0x4+0x3d860+0x4+0x43e79] / Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1: Fri May 24 00:01:02 MST 2002 root@cam2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (996.55-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 Features=0x383fbff real memory = 1073676288 (1048512K bytes) avail memory = 1040162816 (1015784K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc04d0000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f7530 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3057) at 7.4 fxp0: port 0xc400-0xc43f mem 0xdfc00000-0xdfcfffff,0xdffbe000-0xdffbefff irq 9 at device 14.0 on pci0 fxp0: Disabling dynamic standby mode in EEPROM fxp0: New EEPROM ID: 0x40a0 fxp0: EEPROM checksum @ 0x3f: 0x7dcb -> 0x7dcd fxp0: Ethernet address 00:20:ed:07:2c:e6 inphy0: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp1: port 0xc800-0xc83f mem 0xdfe00000-0xdfefffff,0xdffcf000-0xdffcffff irq 12 at device 15.0 on pci0 fxp1: Disabling dynamic standby mode in EEPROM fxp1: New EEPROM ID: 0x40a0 fxp1: EEPROM checksum @ 0x3f: 0x7ccb -> 0x7ccd fxp1: Ethernet address 00:20:ed:07:2c:e7 inphy1: on miibus1 inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto atapci1: port 0xcc00-0xcc3f,0xd000-0xd003,0xd400-0xd407,0xd800-0xd803,0xdc00-0xdc07 mem 0xdffe0000-0xdfffffff irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xdc00 on atapci1 ata3: at 0xd400 on atapci1 orm0: