Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:40:01 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Fix for ServerWorks HT1000 in upcoming 7.1? Message-ID: <20081001164001.GA81847@iib.unsam.edu.ar> In-Reply-To: <200809302351.m8UNpjs7024916@lava.sentex.ca> References: <520894aa0809301434h68b94628x54ec08fd48785feb@mail.gmail.com> <200809302351.m8UNpjs7024916@lava.sentex.ca>
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> At 05:34 PM 9/30/2008, Fernan Aguero wrote: > >> I've been following the "HT1000 chipset errata saga" thread, and the >> commits by sos@ to CVS (around Jan 2008), but have not seen other more >> recent posts about this issue ... is it because it's already fixed and >> working fine for everyone? >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084272.html > > Yes, we ran into this yesterday on a fresh install using the 7.1 beta CD as > it was set to PATA mode by accident. Also, on some earlier BIOS revs, we > had to turn off "enable USB legacy mode" as well as "EHCI handoff". By > default we set those to disabled as it seems to sometimes create a high > interrupt load on the USB bus if its enabled. Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, the PowerEdge SC1435 BIOS does not allow much options here ... I can set the embedded SATA to 'ATA mode' (corruption hell, tested with 7.1 BETA) or just turn it 'OFF' in which case the FreeBSD installer sees no disk present. This is on BIOS v1.1.2. A newer v1.4.4 is available and I'm now researching how to update the BIOS to see if that helps. > If you forget to set the mode to SATA, the dmesg will look like > > Sep 30 13:37:08 dev2 kernel: ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found > non-ATA66 cable > Sep 30 13:37:08 dev2 kernel: ad4: 152627MB <Seagate ST3160815AS 3.AAD> at > ata2-master UDMA33 > > and you will indeed get corruption > > Turning onto normal SATA mode in the BIOS, you should see > > Sep 30 16:14:15 dev2 kernel: ad4: 152627MB <Seagate ST3160815AS 3.AAD> at > ata2-master SATA150 > > ... And everything works great. > > Start with > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso I've used the amd64 version ... don't know if that makes any difference, though. Fernan
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