Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:58:22 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: R J <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sil3512 (sii, SATA) driver on Sun Ultra60/blade 1000 Message-ID: <4ABB971E.5040709@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909240953130.25335@wnk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909240953130.25335@wnk>
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Hi. R J wrote: > I have been referred to you by Marius regarding the sii (Silicon Image) > ata driver on sparc64. The card I have is a two-port SATA card with the > Sil3512 chipset. > > You have perhaps seen some of my communication to the freebsd-sparc list > earlier, but briefly, here's the problem I have had with it. > > UNDER REL_ENG 7: > > I have had a silicon image Sil 3512 in the ultra 60, and attached two > disk drives. The drives are seen by the ata driver. I was able to lay > a ufs file system on them, and even copied files onto the drives, but > the system was not stable. I.e, I would copy files to the sata hard > drives for a few minutes before it would hang and remain that way till I > did a hard reset (power-off). Usually there would be some message about > the device detaching from the system, and the /dev/ad* entries disappear. > > I then take the Sil 3512 out of the ultra60 and put it in the Sun blade > 1000, and attach the disk drives; upon booting, the drives are not seen > by the ata driver, although the controller is seen. Remember, the > drives are seen with the same card in the ultra60. > > REBUILD TO 8.0 BETA on the Sun Blade 1000: > > After I upgraded the Sun blade 1000 to 8.0 BETA, the ata driver could > now see the disk attached to the Sil3512 controller, but the behaviour > remains pretty much like on the Ultra60 under 7 stable if I put any i/o > on the disks. > > I have worked with Marius to get the ata-marvell driver sane for > big-endian sparc64, and that driver now works on the Sun blade 1000 > under 8.0 BETA. Before Marius fixed that driver, it was exhibiting the > same behaviour as the Sil3512 under 8.0 Beta; i.e, the controller is > seen, but no drives are seen, and the system wouldn't even finish > booting if disks were attached to the controller. > > Is it possible to for you to take a look at the Sil ata driver again > in-light of this information? I have only tested SiI3114 chip from this family and only on i386/amd64. It worked fine for me. Unfortunately, I have neither Sil3512 controller nor sparc64 hardware for testing. Driver mentions about some errata for this chip, but I am not aware about it and have no card to test it. Have you tried newer SiI3124/3132 cards family with new siis(4) or old ata(4) driver? -- Alexander Motin
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