Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:34:43 -0400 From: Gregory Wright <gwright@antiope.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ServerWorks/Broadcom HT1000 chipset errata saga Message-ID: <D9720B4E-F8AB-4C25-ABB8-56756FBFA019@antiope.com> In-Reply-To: <47855E7F.8020805@delphij.net> References: <1497D115-2534-4799-9D8E-18A267DF0B62@mipster.net> <9A374150-DC2A-439D-A205-E8867B663C5A@mipster.net> <477B0B07.8080703@terranova.net> <E3911800-6717-46AF-90E7-93EAAAA38882@mipster.net> <477CAF30.7020703@terranova.net> <4782A768.3020304@delphij.net> <47855C9F.40603@terranova.net> <47855E7F.8020805@delphij.net>
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Hi, On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Xin LI wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Travis Mikalson wrote: >> >> Really hoping this will make it into RELENG_7_0. It has successfully >> worked around the crippling HT1000 SATA problems. > > Yes, the changeset was committed into RELENG_7_0 and RELENG_7. > Because > it's very late of release cycle, I am afraid that we will not be > able to > incorporate this patchset in 6.3-RELEASE, but I think it would be a > good > errata candidate after testing. > One note that might help out people with the Tyan h2000M (S3992) mobos --- for the HT1000 patch in RELENG_7 to work, you need to make sure the BIOS settings put the HT1000 SATA controller in "S-ATA" emulation mode. If you use "P-ATA" emulation mode, you are back in data corruption hell. There is also a BIOS option for "RAID" mode which I have not tried. Setting "S-ATA" mode the box seems to run as reliable as it did under 6.2. BR, Greg
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