From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 04:45:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E78216A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:45:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AE343D3F for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:45:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stefan.haglund@crystalnorth.com) Received: by av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 9870B37EA9; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8621737E8F; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.150] (h194n4fls310o253.telia.com [81.229.63.194]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F072D37E42; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42463A67.2070501@crystalnorth.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:27 +0200 From: Stefan Haglund User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jakubik References: <4246156B.3040909@crystalnorth.com> <4610.172.16.0.199.1111895154.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4610.172.16.0.199.1111895154.squirrel@wettoast.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KT133A quirks present in FreeBSD [5.3]? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:45:30 -0000 Thanks for the reply. >>I have a private FreeBSD 5.3 file- & webserver sporting an IWill >>KK266-R (KT133A/686B) motherboard, running a Athlon XP 1600+ >>(1400MHz). The board has an onboard CMD649 IDE RAID controller, that I >>use as an ordinary IDE controller. This controller handles all four disks >>in the system, other than the boot disk. The NIC is an Intel PRO/100 >>(fxp). >>I have a problem with files uploaded to the server is sometimes >>getting corrupted. I've tried a lot of possible solutions (changing PCI >>slots, BIOS settings, etc) to no avail. My question is - is there a quirk >>fix in FreeBSD for the KT133A northbridge, as (AFAIK) there is in Linux? >> >> > >I have this chipset on my Asus A7V-133 MB, and i have no problems. The >server is actually a file server. I am willing to bet that you either have >a bad cable, bad mb, or its the crappy CMD chipset. > > I looked around some with pciconf, and it seems that the Linux KT133 quirk either is already in the FreeBSD code, or it's fixed in the BIOS, because 4&5 was already 0x01 (4=>1 & 5=>0, or that is how I understood the code anyway). :-( I have tried other cables. AFAIK, the corruption occurs to any of the disks, but I will try to determine that it really does (and I somehow have mixed up the cables when changing them :-) ). But it did work without problems with the Windows XP installation it ran before (we used it for audio recording, no problems). Is the CMD 649 known to be buggy? It doesn't seem to occur very often (or even at all) with pure single uploads, but rather when there is concurrent traffic to/from it (I'm not the only one having access to it).