Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:46:51 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller Message-ID: <19990121234651.F5377@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199901211221=2ENAA16525=40freebsd=2Edk=3E=3B_from_S=F8?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?ren_Schmidt_on_Thu=2C_Jan_21=2C_1999_at_01:21:03PM_%2B0100?= References: <19990121230129.D5377@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199901211221.NAA16525@freebsd.dk>
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On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >It seems David Dawes wrote: >> I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with >> 3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus >> probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the >> non-RAID card), the probes in i386/isa/wd.c fail. I added some debugging >> printfs to the code, and have found that wdreset() is failing. By >> changing the code to ignore that failure, it gets further, and correctly >> identifies the attached disks. I can even access the disks sufficiently >> to read the partition table with fdisk (but with timeouts). > >Hmm, I run one of my systems with the Ultra/33, but with the following >patch, without that it wont recognise a lone CDROM/TAPE, but requires >a disk to be present. It also includes some other patches, including >a fix for SMP system which Julian broke in rev1.183 of wd.c. That didn't improve things, but with the patch I got lots of messages like the following (for a disk attached to the onboard PIIX4): wd1: DMA failure, DMA status 0 (The box isn't SMP.) >I also run the card without its BIOS, as that tends to get in the way. >I think the FastTrack is just an Ultra/33 with another BIOS chip on it. I'll try pulling the BIOS tomorrow. We didn't get this card for it's RAID features anyway. Thanks. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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