From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 19:51:08 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 CD7F410656A2 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7617F8FC2B for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 56831 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Mar 2008 19:51:07 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=3hL4oI5FPSQrjPNacYzHEqyIiOvBWGvHLzLiiClBNd7bNWrA7G+5u9GZ23+G8IcT5+Nlyc3ps7hZzoOYQwZqRpeA0dst4N1ESr4PRfpymtZOq3m7JIJ9/dPiinCn/e0fuzpRCuqGvYbHoMQIhXNf6U3v/u+hyMzYVtfOHjjjRX0=; X-YMail-OSG: uJG5Qt8VM1l6Lkgg5yV6oupccVGHLVNTijcGb1i8Pregbu4e3UhHeL5YHDtWyZWIolTLfYVvwOmW0nIgxty8vdeb.cbC_THndoamitadCDqRYuf.8Bg- Received: from [98.203.28.38] by web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:51:07 PDT Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:51:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Barney Cordoba To: Gregory Wright , freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <517227.54685.qm@web63904.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: 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 19:51:08 -0000 --- Gregory Wright wrote: > > 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 I'm a bit concerned that these "workarounds" for this and a couple of other chipsets indicate a problem with some underlying mechanism in the SATA driver code. There are no such workarounds required in the linux driver from what I've seen. Could it be a problem with buffer handling that might creep up under heavier loads? Barney ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs