Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:26:05 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Promise SATAII 150 TX4, instant reboot when bootloader starts Message-ID: <2E968109-0C3F-4EAF-9222-C353156B450D@stromnet.org>
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Hi I'm about to upgrade my server, throwing out an old 80Gb PATA-disk running Slackware, and replacing it with two SATA drives in RAID1 using gmirror (yeah, replacing Slack with FreeBSD, I have seen the light! ;)). Well, after some googling which didnt make me much brighter, I went out and bought a Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller card. I've also ordered two Maxtor MaxLine 300GB, but don't have them here yet. So, to find out if the card played nice with FreeBSD, I took down my workstation (a XP3200+ on a MSI K8N Platinum mobo, nForce3 250GB chipset) and plugged in the Promise card. Downloaded 6.0-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso and put it on a CD-RW. Pulled my current SATA disk, a Western Digital 37Gb Raptor, from the onboard SATA. Booted from CD. So far, so good... Looked nice, the card was found! atapci0: <nVidia nForce3 Pro UDMA133 controller> .... ... atapci1: <nVidia nForce3 Pro SATA150 controller> .... ... atapci2: <nVidia nForce3 Pro SATA150 controller> .... ... ... atapci3: <Promise PDC40518 SATA150 controller> port 0x9400-0x947f, 0x9800-0x98ff mem 0xe4021000-0xe4021fff,0xe4000000-0xe401ffff irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci2 ata6: <ATA channel 0> on atapci3 ata7: <ATA channel 1> on atapci3 ata8: <ATA channel 2> on atapci3 ata9: <ATA channel 3> on atapci3 Nice! Took the computer down again, connected the Raptor drive to the Promise card. Booted again, selected CD Boot. Now the bad things starts to happen. I see the regular Booting from CD:... prompt (BIOS), then I see the FreeBSD bootloader flash by, followed by an imediate restart. Strange... Tried a couple of times, same result. So, I thought it could be some hardware problems, so I pulled the card and disk, and plugged them in to an old IBM Aptiva (Pentium II 300Mhz, no idea what mobo it has), and booted the CD.. No problems at all! Booted fine both with and without the disk attached: ... atapci1: <Promise PDC40518 SATA150 controller> port 0x7800-0x787f, 0x7c00-0x7cff mem 0x80120000-0x80120fff,0x80140000-0x8015ffff irq11 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1 ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1 ... ad10: 35304MB <WDC WD360GD-00FLA1 27.08D27> at ata5-master SATA150 Okay, nicenice, no problem.. So there probably is some hardware problem.. But what? Anyone got any experience with this kind of hardware? Tried another thing, put the card back in the XP3200+, and booted without a disk connected. Connected the disk after boot, with the following results: ata9: CONNNECTED ad18: 35304MB <WDC360GD-00FLA1 27.08D27> at ata9-master SATA150 subdisk18: detached ad18: detached ata9: DISCONNECTED Nice! Seems i could plug it in and out in the Promise as much as I wanted, but when I tried the on-board SATA, it gave me a kernel panic: ata2: CONNECT REQUESTED ata2: CONNECTED ata2: CONNECT REQUESTED ad4: 35304MB <WDC360GD-00FLA1 27.08D27> at ata2-master SATA150 ata2: CONNECTED unknown: req=0xc2abd708 ATA_IDENTIFY semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson!! >>>here it switched to first console<<< Uptime: 4m3s Cannot dump. no dump device devined. Automatic reboot in 15 sec.... Something seems not to work that good with my mobo... Not that I realy care for the moment... So, my problem seems to be to get FreeBSD running with a disc connected at boot, in my XP3200. The "real" server is an XP1900 on an Asus A7V333 (KT333 chipset), but I'd rather don't bring it down just to test... But I guess i have to sooner or later... Anyway, does anyone have any clue why the machine won't boot with the disc connected? Thanks! Johan Ström johan@stromnet.org http://www.stromnet.org/
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