Joao Barros wrote: > On 11/20/07, Thierry Herbelot <thierry_at_herbelot.com> wrote: > >> Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a écrit : >> >> >>> I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with 7.0 betas >>> before, but with this patch things run as well as they did >>> on 6.x. >>> >>> Ari S. >>> >> Hello, >> >> Has anyone an idea why the Promise controllers seemed to work correctly under >> 6.x, then have issues with 7.0 ? (more precisely : was the existing bug not >> triggered by the 6.x kernel ?) >> >> The problems as in the Promise HW, so it bound to happen on 6.x as well. Note that it just leads to data corruption not nessesarily hangs/lockups. > > Apparently not all Promise controllers are/were affected. I've been > running CURRENT since Pawel committed ZFS with an onboard Promise: > > atapci0: <Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller> port > 0xb000-0xb03f,0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb87f mem > 0xfc024000-0xfc024fff,0xfc000000-0xfc01ffff irq 23 at device 4.0 on > pci4 > ar0: 305245MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID0 (stripe 64 KB)> status: READY > ar1: 305245MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID0 (stripe 64 KB)> status: READY > No, only the newer "Gen2" chips, the older should be safe. > atapci0_at_pci0:4:4:0: class=0x010400 card=0x80f51043 chip=0x3319105a > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' > device = 'PDC20319(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX4 Controller' > class = mass storage > subclass = RAID > > The only problem I have and I'm filling a pr for that, is when booting > from CD with the controller enabled, the BTX loader just reboots. > Thats at least not an ATA problem :) -Søren _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers_at_freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Tue Nov 20 2007 - 14:53:28 UTC
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