From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 17:50:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D663B106566C for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:50:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gwright@antiope.com) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23398FC28 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:50:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gwright@antiope.com) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0FvE1Z05K0cQ2SLA903700; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:34:00 +0000 Received: from redwing-zuni.18clay.com ([71.251.210.20]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0Hak1Z0060SxTZT8W00000; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:34:51 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=RYJ8z19JnoYA:10 a=k4PAtElAXMsKeurEYlcA:9 a=datlnmSD-y3WziOIQWA1nMuYZvUA:4 a=3SmO1NJXDBsA:10 Message-Id: From: Gregory Wright To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <47855E7F.8020805@delphij.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:34:43 -0400 References: <1497D115-2534-4799-9D8E-18A267DF0B62@mipster.net> <9A374150-DC2A-439D-A205-E8867B663C5A@mipster.net> <477B0B07.8080703@terranova.net> <477CAF30.7020703@terranova.net> <4782A768.3020304@delphij.net> <47855C9F.40603@terranova.net> <47855E7F.8020805@delphij.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Subject: Re: ServerWorks/Broadcom HT1000 chipset errata saga X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:50:53 -0000 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