Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:33:24 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change in Promise controllers Message-ID: <43E02C04.3070605@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <drp72h$26e5$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <drp72h$26e5$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
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Christian Baer wrote: > Good morning, everyone! > > There seems to have been some changes made concerning the supported > Promise controllers. > > I have a SATA TX2Plus (PDC20775 chip). This is a sort of hybrid for SATA > and PATA - it can run two drives of both. > > Until today I got this running with a sort of hack I found here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg00553.html > > That worked fine until today. Now the PDC40775 (which is supposed to be > the same device if you believe google) has the same ID and the > controller is identified as such. The result is this (in dmesg): > > ad8: req=0xc398a000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !! > > Along with a crash of a process that couldn't even be stopped by a > kill -9! > > Can someone tell me how to fix this? > Not of much help to you I'm afraid :-( , but a couple of us see a very similar error with the SX4060 (PDC20621) - same chip as the SX4000 which works perfectly for Søren, so I'll be very interested to find out what is going on with this! Cheers Mark
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