From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 18:25:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B4516A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:25:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4132843D3F for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:25:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB1IOj24023597; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <41AE0C62.7090208@DeepCore.dk> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:24:34 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael W. Lucas" References: <3BE1BF5E-4249-11D9-9F7A-000A95A9A574@nordahl.net> <20041201153946.GA16872@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20041201153946.GA16872@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: 'Frode Nordahl' cc: Daniel Eriksson Subject: Re: Got rid of my SiI3112A X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 01 Dec 2004 18:25:06 -0000 Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:40:41PM +0100, Daniel Eriksson wrote: >=20 >>Frode Nordahl wrote: >> >> >>>But as things are today, I think it would be best to remove=20 >>>support for=20 >>>SiI3112A. Especially since the general attitude towards it is=20 >>>"it's too=20 >>>broke, we don't want to waste any more time on it". >>> >>>Attempting to use it in a 5.3-RELEASE or 6-CURRENT system will most=20 >>>likelly make your system crash and burn, and make your data=20 >>>unrecoverable beyond repair. >> >>I will have to agree with Frode on this one. I recently put -CURRENT on= a >>machine with an ASUS mobo that had a SiL 3112 controller. Hooking up tw= o >>250GB WD discs to it quickly resulted in timeouts, followed by some str= ange >>messages from geom_stripe (used it to stripe the two discs), followed b= y >>filesystem corruption and panics. >=20 >=20 > Does anyone know if Soren has one of these controllers? >=20 > Getting him a poorly-supported controller is the first step towards > getting it fixed. I do have a couble of them actually, both the first revision thats=20 *real* bad, and the second which is a hair better... Needless to say they both work in all my notherboards and with all my=20 SATA disks, alas with the expect occasional timeout and retry... However, I dont have any real crappy HW around, I dont/wont waste my=20 money on that, so that might explain why :) --=20 -S=F8ren