Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:52:33 -0500 From: Richard Thornton <thornton.richard@gmail.com> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sparc64/164226: Data corruption on 9.0-RELEASE when reading from CDROM Message-ID: <arlohbyn8tj96qqnia8beg5n.1327701153259@email.android.com>
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Openbsd sparc64 installs flawlessly Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote: >The following reply was made to PR sparc64/164226; it has been noted by GNATS. > >From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> >To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> >Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> >Subject: Re: sparc64/164226: Data corruption on 9.0-RELEASE when reading from CDROM >Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:47:04 +0100 > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 01:59:19AM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:50:05PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 09:40:35PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > > > > On 01/20/12 21:32, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:13:38PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > > > > >>On 20.01.2012 19:51, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > >>>Alexander, could you please look into this? > > > > >>>Apparently, using cd(4) with ATA_CAM on sparc64 causes seemingly > > > > >>>random data corruption while using the same hardware with acd(4) > > > > >>>doesn't. Also cd(4) works just fine with SPI CD-ROMs. This affects > > > > >>>CD-ROMs connected to both AcerLabs M5229 and CMD 646. > > > > >>>Btw., apparently hw.ata.ata_dma and w.ata.atapi_dma no longer > > > > >>>work when using ATA_CAM as ata_getparam() isn't called in the > > > > >>>first place. On a quick glance hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin and > > > > >>>hw.ata.wc probably also are no longer available with ATA_CAM. > > > > >>>Is there an alternative to these tunables to achieve the same > > > > >>>when using ATA_CAM? > > > > >> > > > > >>hw.ata.ata_dma and hw.ata.atapi_dma are indeed no longer exist. But > > > > >>hint.ata.X.mode and hint.ata.X.devX.mode are working. In run tame it can > > > > >>be done via `camcontrol negotiate cd0 -U -M mode; camcontrol rescan X`, > > > > >>where X is a CAM bus number. > > > > >> > > > > >>hw.ata.ata_dma_check_80pin still exist, but CAM ATA transport is no > > > > >>longer look on whet device thinks about cable type. It is tricky in SATA > > > > >>world. Cable type is checked only from controller driver side now. Looks > > > > >>like none of mentioned controller drivers are doing it. > > > > >> > > > > >>hw.ata.wc was replaced by kern.cam.ada.write_cache and > > > > >>kern.cam.ada.X.write_cache. > > > > >> > > > > >>I would start experiments from limiting transfer speed manually. > > > > > > > > > >Hrm, limitting the mode to PIO avoids the data corruption with > > > > >ATA_CAM. > > > > > > > > What's about limiting speed to UDMA33? Is it DMA problem or result of > > > > dropped device side cable detection that could limit to UDMA33 before? > > > > > > > > > > Apparently it's some sort of DMA problem. UDMA2 is also the maximum > > > negotiated with acd(4). Limitting to UDMA1, UDMA0 or even WDMA0 > > > makes no differnce to the problem. > > > > ... for the ALi M5229 rev. 0xc4 that is. The CMD 646 is limited to > > WDMA2 in the firstplace, a user also reported data corruption with > > these though. > > > > I can also confirm the problem with CMD 646 but it turns out there's > no problem when using the PATA port of an add-on VT6421A with otherwise > identical hardware. So the data corruption apparently isn't due to a > 64-bit or endianness bug in the ATA_CAM code (besides looking fine in > this regard). At least for ata_aceride(4) I've also double-checked > the generic initialization and the mode setting but can't spot any > issue there. Does ATA_CAM+cd(4) do anything fundamentally different > than acd(4)? > > Marius > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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