Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:22:54 -0400 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems installing FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on UltraSPARC IIe Message-ID: <20050408192254.GO16883@web2.merit.edu>
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According to Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>: > What model of ATA controller is it? I don't know and I don't know how to determine this. Would it show up in the FreeBSD boot log (like dmesg(8) ouput)? If so, then this booting output is from what I sent in my first message: atapci0: <AcerLabs Aladdin UDMA66 controller> > Did you test the other drives under solaris, or only under FreeBSD? All our Sun Blades have the 40 GB Western Digital drives and Solaris on them. I replaced one of these with a brand new, blank, Western Digital 40 GB drive and had the same disappointing results. :-( My point is that these Sun Blades work with Solaris. I tried different Sun Blades (as I said previously) just in case I had picked a bad system... > It might be that other hard drives will work better once the newest > ATA support is committed. I went through all kinds of agony on 5.3 > with multiple types of hard drives, on multiple kinds of SATA disk > controllers. That agony included lots of "WRITE_DMA timed out" and > "READ_DMA timed out" messages. And I had plenty of recommendations > that I needed to buy new hard disks. I did do that, and I did switch > SATA controllers (trying three different controllers), but those > changes never really solved the problems, they only changed the nature > of the trouble I was seeing. This is most disheartening news to read, sigh... :-( > Things have been much better for me with the latest ATAng changes in > 6.x-current, and we now have the even newer ATAmkIII changes (which I > have not tried yet). Admittedly all of my headaches were in i386, not > sparc64, but it wouldn't surprise me if many of the same issues exist. I don't much care what flavour of FreeBSD that I run on these uSPARC IIe boxes, but I'd much prefer to run FreeBSD than OpenBSD or (shudder) Linux. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu
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