Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:48:54 -0400 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20130718004854.GC2264@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <51E73AA9.5030004@reynoldsnet.org> References: <51E73AA9.5030004@reynoldsnet.org>
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--uxuisgdDHaNETlh8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi John, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:45:29PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot > of 9.2-RELEASE. >=20 > I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a > brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new > ASRock motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I > tried at first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a > bit about the new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have > been "out of it" in terms of this list and other going's on for > about a year due to workload), but upon booting I was getting > "timeout" errors >=20 > ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0 > ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 > serr 00000000 cmd 0004df17 >=20 > to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured > I would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been > spotted and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot > and tried to install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first > screen of the install because of these messages: >=20 > ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected) > uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device >=20 > and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these > errors about 1 per second. >=20 > So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue with > this hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something > has zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot > because I can't even get through the install program. :(. Same > hardware, same everything. >=20 > I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result. >=20 > The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to > install 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices > after I hit 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, > I'm wondering generically are people having problems with SSD's in > FreeBSD? In this hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA > disk yet. >=20 > But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get > through install on this H/W where 9.1 could......... >=20 Do you have a SATA drive you can try with this hardware? It would be useful to know if that works, or same errors, etc. Glen --uxuisgdDHaNETlh8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJR5zt2AAoJEFJPDDeguUajr2cIAJDda4QGRX7tyDo5ekpwE5E+ AvIvCXx5KKIUPCr7qC/GvaUU40r8fVA3qpLgmVBdrNJvjG/dOGU7Vy2ibd0ifkgI amqyH9zhZJ13m+vULIpNEkLZmwpQE7V6g1kqWkzStMn2QJzDv3Y2fOefAKsUUiB8 5uLmkJy1nEhe5JNJQ9dG1jb0VwsR7txiSE6B+MFxCO3vh3tMb2fpwIRhD7yw6TQ8 t0UXdZq2k8BQm/hRHFcX1Ib8UtwKaUVQNKKPsuur45Fjeejf0FW5PlKHw7K7Act3 mj+P9vn/pdSyHFhtAH3N0H6H6A6djVLv7AiFQHLLzr52EYbdfci6zSL8CASac8s= =2dp+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uxuisgdDHaNETlh8--
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