Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:26:25 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "John Soderberg" <johns@newebmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ServerWorks CSB6 and SiI 0680 Message-ID: <44r70sw9vi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200607100633.AA33390216@newebmail.com> (John Soderberg's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:33:39 -0400") References: <WorldClient-F200607100633.AA33390216@newebmail.com>
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"John Soderberg" <johns@newebmail.com> writes: > Hello folks: > > I need some ATA/IDE driver work, wrt chipsets 0680 or CSB6. > > Otherwise I shall have to move to Linux, and golly -- I just > perfer FreeBSD. > > I'm on some IBM blades, (which use the ServerWorks CSB6 and SiI 0680 > chips,) and have a single Intel P4 as the main CPU processor. > > I'm running FBSD 6.1. > > After some detective work, it seems that the FreeBSD > ATA (or IDE disk driver) may have been having > problems, so I jotted down the specific Chipset we > have in blades 1-5 and proceeded to investigate... > > The chipsets we have are: > SiI 0680 and ServerWorks CSB6. > > There are 2 chipsets and what is happening is that > the Primary IDE channel > or Channel 0 is the SiI (Silicon Image) and the > secondary channel or Channel 1 is the Serverworks, > which explains why 3 of the blades are running as > UDMA100 instead of UDMA133 > > Here's the notification note fr Mar06 telling us taht > we have "buggy" chipsets, both of which are listed by > name: > > http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.hardware/browse_frm/thread/e89378cb8690f2d7/8ea5bfc25b9ab90a?lnk=st&q=Serverworks+CSB6+group%3A*freebsd*&rnum=34&hl=en#8ea5bfc25b9ab90a Please read that note again. I believe that the mention of the CSB6 chipset is just the existing support note in the manual for ata(4). So I don't think that explains anything of your issues. You could always talk to SOS@ about the observed symptoms...
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