From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 06:25:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8A916A421 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ender@enderzone.com) Received: from www.ksdhost.com (www.ksdhost.com [75.126.66.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5650F13C45A for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:25:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ender@enderzone.com) Received: (qmail 78902 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2007 23:59:09 -0600 Received: from buff-broadband-ws-86.dsl.pwrtc.com (HELO ?192.168.5.100?) (64.184.124.87) by www.ksdhost.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2007 23:59:09 -0600 Message-ID: <473A8E8D.1020404@enderzone.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:58:37 -0500 From: Ender User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Travis Mikalson References: <20071109114636.Y639@10.0.0.1> <473A675A.2030600@terranova.net> In-Reply-To: <473A675A.2030600@terranova.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:25:56 -0000 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