Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:49:35 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, samira <samira.nox@gmail.com> Subject: Re: sata atapi on ich9r Message-ID: <472CD0CF.1020909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0711030941540.3377@thor.farley.org> References: <op.t07skxg4godk2w@localhost> <472C3569.3050301@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0711030941540.3377@thor.farley.org>
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>> Note to the development team: No I was not tripping when I reported >> these same issues just unable to provide proof > > I guarantee you are not tripping. :( Please inform the my doctors (certain "a not repeatable issue" people on this list) of that fact > >> Note to sam: Do you have any development experience if so I invite you >> to help me in my current project to patch the ata driver to fix all >> these issues (the ata developer told me since he doesn't have access to >> a ich9r/p35 system no patch and/or cvsup would be forth coming on these >> issues)... I am also a developer but at the moment am very tied up with >> making a living so I will give what help I can but can't do the whole >> project alone > > I can try to help, but I am also busy (crunch-time at work). Later tonight I am going to set up an informal clearinghouse list/wiki for this issue so we can be more systematic about it. > > My system is an Asus P5K-E/WiFi with a DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW > LH-20A1S/9L08>. It has 4GB RAM and two SATA hard drives. I have no > PATA drives in it. It is running in RAID mode. I assume amd64 right? > > Unfortunately, this is my only workstation at home, so I will not be > changing versions. I am willing to make changes to the driver. Here is > a patch[1] to recognize and print the ICH9R during boot. It does not > change anything functionally. > > My current notes: > 1. burncd (without atapicam loaded), cdrecord and dd can all produce > warnings. > dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=10M count=1 burncd gives me no warnings (except on fixate [read time outs]) so this is cosmetics I think (a local issue for you) > > 2. sysinstall will fail during install when copying GENERIC kernel. > This was on my work computer in a Dell Optiplex 745 with 1GB RAM. > atapci0: <Intel ICH8 SATA300 controller> > acd0: CDRW <HL-DT-ST CD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-H10N/C103> at ata3-master > SATA150 Like I asked the other person what is the actual performence of acd0 (150 or 300)? > > 3. Do not detach a channel with atacontrol. I tried that on the channel > with the DVD drive. Panic. I will have to look at this. > > 4. I am thinking about writing a program to perform simple tests on the > ATAPI ioctl's. Maybe one exists? Don't know but this is defently a good starting place to gather base data with (have sam run it also) > > 5. PATA is not related since I have no PATA drives in my computer. Ideally I should see the following on my machine (bios sees it) but the above dmesg snip shows I don't: 500 GB HDD SATA/300 OEM DVDR,-RW,+R SATA/300 250 GB HDD PATA UDMA/133 (I have an other 250 GB I want to install as soon this one is reconized) > > Sean > 1. http://www.farley.org/freebsd/tmp/ata-chipset.c.diff I will try it tonight.
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