Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:06:22 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller Message-ID: <199901211306.OAA16593@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19990121234651.F5377@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Jan 21, 1999 11:46:51 pm"
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It seems David Dawes wrote:
>
> 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.)
Hmm, and it is an uptodate -current system ??
Just use this part then:
Index: wd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/isa/wd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.186
diff -u -r1.186 wd.c
--- wd.c 1999/01/17 05:46:24 1.186
+++ wd.c 1999/01/19 18:29:23
@@ -350,9 +350,11 @@
goto reset_ok;
#endif
DELAY(RECOVERYTIME);
+/* Allow atapi only channels to work proberly SOS
if (wdreset(du) != 0) {
goto nodevice;
}
+*/
reset_ok:
/* execute a controller only command */
> >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.
That helped me in a lot if situations, but performance wont be as good
as we seem not to initialize the chip(s)...
I have the specsheets somewhere if anybody is interested...
- Søren
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