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Date:      Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:01:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Matthew Gilbert <agilbertm@earthlink.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers
Message-ID:  <200112270001.fBR01Ns48341@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200112262315.fBQNFue42555@freebsd.dk> <200112262355.fBQNtfK48250@apollo.backplane.com>

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::> atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA100 controller> port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on 
::
::You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause severe
::data corruption problems if the BIOS does not setup the northbidge
::chip correctly. Please check with your board vendor if they have a
::new updated BIOS that fixes this problem. This is not an ATA specific
::problem, but a problem with the PCI subsystem in general on these
::chips that manifests it self on high PCI load (which the ATA subsytem
::is quite capable of delivering)...
::
::A fix for this is present in -current, and if I get permission from 
::the RE, it will go into 4.5 also, but a BIOS fix is by far the right
::way to fix this problem.
::
::-Søren
:
:    Soren, if you post a patch for 4.x I will be happy to follow-up 
:    with Brady.  I've been working with Brady for several days now trying 
:    to track down corruption in the vm_page array.  I *really* want to know
:    if a VIA chipset patch solves his problem, because it would
:    also explain about a dozen similar bug reports over the last 6 months.
:    (Which would also be good backing to get it into 4.5).

    Sorry, I meant I'd follow up with Matthew Gilbert.  Also, I've 
    been trying to track down a crash in nfs_node that Nils Holland
    has been having - he appears to have the same chipset and could
    have the same problem, and he can reproduce the panic very consistently
    within a few hours.

    Brady has an older chipset.  Are there any known problems with this
    chipset?

pcib1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
isab0: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 82C586 ATA33 controller> port 0xe400-0xe40f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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