From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 03:33:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE66516A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from linda-1.paradise.net.nz (bm-1a.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DBF43D48 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (tclsnelb1-src-1.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.172]) by linda-1.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0ITZ00MZQOJR01@linda-1.paradise.net.nz> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:33:27 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (218-101-29-36.dsl.clear.net.nz [218.101.29.36]) by smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E041324663; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:33:27 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:33:24 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: To: Christian Baer Message-id: <43E02C04.3070605@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051106) References: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change in Promise controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:33:30 -0000 Christian Baer wrote: > Good morning, everyone! > > There seems to have been some changes made concerning the supported > Promise controllers. > > I have a SATA TX2Plus (PDC20775 chip). This is a sort of hybrid for SATA > and PATA - it can run two drives of both. > > Until today I got this running with a sort of hack I found here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg00553.html > > That worked fine until today. Now the PDC40775 (which is supposed to be > the same device if you believe google) has the same ID and the > controller is identified as such. The result is this (in dmesg): > > ad8: req=0xc398a000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !! > > Along with a crash of a process that couldn't even be stopped by a > kill -9! > > Can someone tell me how to fix this? > Not of much help to you I'm afraid :-( , but a couple of us see a very similar error with the SX4060 (PDC20621) - same chip as the SX4000 which works perfectly for Søren, so I'll be very interested to find out what is going on with this! Cheers Mark