From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 13 06:16:29 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 BEC8E16A400; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F404F43D45; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:16:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k3D6GQu71294; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:16:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Nikolas Britton" Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:16:26 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ICH7 SATA RAID Broken, Was (Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...) 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: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:16:29 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:nikolas.britton@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:47 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; sos@freebsd.org >Subject: ICH7 SATA RAID Broken, Was (Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...) > > >On 4/12/06, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm@toybox.placo.com] >> >Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:04 PM >> >To: Nikolas Britton >> >Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >Subject: RE: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE... >> > >> >>-----Original Message----- >> >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of >> >Nikolas Britton >> >>Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:25 PM >> >>To: Ted Mittelstaedt >> >>Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>Subject: Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE... >> >> >> >> >> >>I think the ICH7 sata problem has already been fixed, check the logs >> >>here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ if not >> >>jump onto the stable mailing list and start waving your hands. >> >> >> > >> >I'm doing a make release on today's cvs as we speak, I'll >see tomorrow >> >if it recognizes the disks. >> > >> >> Nikolas, >> >> Just an update, no the ICH7R problem has not been fixed. >> >> OpenSUSE recognizes the array, though. >> > >Send email to Søren Schmidt sos@FreeBSD.org I have been already. Soren is very responsive to PR's if the people filing them meet him halfway and he responded as soon as the PR was filed. >and/or post this on the >stable mailing list, their is nothing I can do personally that will >fix it for you. I know that. What I was pointing out is that while your enthusiasm is commendable, FreeBSD 6.1 really isn't totally ready for prime time. The HP DL320 G4 is a pretty cheap server - it's positioned squarely to compete agressively with the black box intel motherboard servers out there. It's also got an embedded remote control package that is fantastic - you can do a nuke and repave of the server remotely if you want. We are going to see a lot of these out there pretty soon. And if HP could fuck up the SATA controller to make it not work, then other server vendors can do it also. I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg with the ICH7R controllers. Damn Intel for designing a controller that apparently lets designers "improve" it. >You could start hacking away at the problem if you >know some C, digging around in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ > Soren sent a patch this morning which I think gave him some more data to work with. We will see. Unfortunately, though, getting the SATA controller working on this beast is just the first problem - there's also (I suspect) something not kosher about the ethernet ports either. But until I get a system on it, I can't dig into that. Ted