Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 12:27:47 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> To: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ordering of ports on Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller Message-ID: <20060509172747.GA61904@megan.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <1147180077.1953.1.camel@genius.i.cz> References: <20060508183538.GC54101@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <1147180077.1953.1.camel@genius.i.cz>
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:07:57PM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote: > Rick C. Petty wrote: > > What determines the probing order of the ports/channels on the PDC40718 > > (Promise TX4 SATA300 controller)? The SATA ports are labeled "Port 1" > > through "Port 4". I have a total of four of these cards, and all of > > them repeatably probe out of order: > > > > label reported in FreeBSD > > ------ ------------------- > > Port 1 <ATA channel 3> > > Port 2 <ATA channel 1> > > Port 3 <ATA channel 0> > > Port 4 <ATA channel 2> > > > > Has anyone else noticed this with these cards? What can I do to fix it? > > I'm running both 6.0-RELEASE and RELENG_6_1 as of 2006-May-07. > > I see that too but I don't care as long as it works :-). Well that's a problem too. I'm not having good luck with this controller on either 6.0 or 6.1 unless I turn both ACPI and PREEMPTION off, and even then sometimes gvinum's raid5 makes the problem even worse... -- Rick C. Petty
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