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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--Apple-Mail-6--236569539 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi I'm about to upgrade my server, throwing out an old 80Gb PATA-disk =20 running Slackware, and replacing it with two SATA drives in RAID1 =20 using gmirror (yeah, replacing Slack with FreeBSD, I have seen the =20 light! ;)). Well, after some googling which didnt make me much brighter, I went =20 out and bought a Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller card. I've also =20 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 =20 workstation (a XP3200+ on a MSI K8N Platinum mobo, nForce3 250GB =20 chipset) and plugged in the Promise card. Downloaded 6.0-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso and put it on a CD-RW. Pulled =20 my current SATA disk, a Western Digital 37Gb Raptor, from the onboard =20= 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,=20 0x9800-0x98ff mem 0xe4021000-0xe4021fff,0xe4000000-0xe401ffff irq 19 =20 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 =20= Promise card. Booted again, selected CD Boot. Now the bad things starts to happen. =20 I see the regular Booting from CD:... prompt (BIOS), then I see the =20 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 =20 card and disk, and plugged them in to an old IBM Aptiva (Pentium II =20 300Mhz, no idea what mobo it has), and booted the CD.. No problems at =20= all! Booted fine both with and without the disk attached: ... atapci1: <Promise PDC40518 SATA150 controller> port 0x7800-0x787f,=20 0x7c00-0x7cff mem 0x80120000-0x80120fff,0x80140000-0x8015ffff irq11 =20 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 =20 problem.. But what? Anyone got any experience with this kind of =20 hardware? Tried another thing, put the card back in the XP3200+, and booted =20 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 =20 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=3D0xc2abd708 ATA_IDENTIFY semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will =20= 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 =20 realy care for the moment... So, my problem seems to be to get FreeBSD running with a disc =20 connected at boot, in my XP3200. The "real" server is an XP1900 on an Asus A7V333 (KT333 chipset), but =20= I'd rather don't bring it down just to test... But I guess i have to =20 sooner or later... Anyway, does anyone have any clue why the machine won't boot with the =20= disc connected? Thanks! Johan Str=F6m johan@stromnet.org http://www.stromnet.org/ --Apple-Mail-6--236569539--
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