Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:58:37 -0500 From: Ender <ender@enderzone.com> To: Travis Mikalson <bofh@terranova.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? Message-ID: <473A8E8D.1020404@enderzone.com> In-Reply-To: <473A675A.2030600@terranova.net> References: <20071109114636.Y639@10.0.0.1> <473A675A.2030600@terranova.net>
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Travis Mikalson wrote: > There is definitely a problem. The Tyan S3950G2NR (HT1000) on-board > SATA controller corrupts my data horribly and so does a Marvell > 88SX6081 8-port SATA300 controller plugged into the PCI-X slot. > > I have had to buy a couple cheap 4-port SiI3114 PCI cards for now to > be able to use this system with RELENG_7 and ZFS. > > Jeff Roberson wrote: >> I have reports from a user that his install ends up corrupted. I >> wanted to find out if it was a general problem with this chipset. >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff > I have several of these machines and i have tried installing Freebsd 6 - Freebsd 7 beta2 . The general breakdown is as follows. On freebsd 6 PATA mode works, SATA mode is broken. On freebsd 7 both PATA and SATA mode is broken. You can not even do a fresh install of 7 beta2. (I have only been able to use these machines disklessly) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/117656
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