Silicon Image SATA controllers (was: sil3114 versus sil3114a)

> The Silicon Image controllers are some of the worst out there, according > to our ATA maintainer I have a Silicon Image SATALink 3512 which has 2 ports and barely reads 40 MB/s total from 2 drives. I have a board with the nforce4 and drives on 2 of its 4 ports which easily reads ~137 MB/s total

HDD

> Is there a way to make FreeBSD running very well with power failure? Add hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf (assuming SATA or PATA drives) and reboot. Add -U flag to newfs when making a new ffs. Add a UPS to your power cord. Mount filesystems read-only when possible. (e.g. /usr )

Re: Add warning notes for known quirkly ata chipsets

> I don't know any others offhand Word is that nforce4 plus Maxtor or Hitachi disks gives data corruption. Nforce4 plus Seagate is said to be okay. http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t8171.html I have nforce4-ultra with 4 Seagate 7200.8 SATA drives and have not observed any data cor

Open Graphics Project looking for reviewers

The Open Graphics Project is designing an "open source" graphics/video board. Supposed to have 2 dual-link DVI, and TV-out. They recently released the preliminary schematic, and are looking for people to review it. Hardware bugs, changes that would help the device drivers, etc. If you have ever

Improving FreeBSD's hardware compatibility - TV tuners

> analog TV? what's that? isn't everyone going digital? (yes, I know > that analog TV will be with us for a long time due to security cams > and other uses..) Broadcast analog TV will be going away soon. Yet there will be continue to be some uses for analog capture. So I recommend concentratin

Re: nVidia chipsets?

> MBO DFI, s. AM2, Infinity nF-M2I, nFORCE 4, Is this the same nFORCE 4 used on the socket 939 boards? I have a 939 with "nforce 4 ultra". (ultra means it supports SATA's NCQ queueing) I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on it. > Do ATA & SATA ports, ethernet and sound work? The nforce Ethernet works, b

max UART speed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UART lists UART speeds up to 2,764,800 bits/second. Does it take a special magic UART to do this? termios.h only goes up to 921,600 ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Recommended SATA controllers?

Looking for some form of SATA controller with good support. Currently running FreeBSD 6.2. Bonus points if it also works well with NetBSD & Linux (machine triple boots). I don't need RAID. Has there been any progress getting a driver working for Silicon Image 3124? Or any SATA controller with N

Re: Non-raid PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports?

> - as you mentioned, without the battery backup the cache on the > controller would have to be write-through, which disabled much of > the advantage of the thing. > I can't have NCQ on the NVidia SATA ports, Yes, very annoying to choose hardware that supports NCQ and then discover you can't

Documentation for AMD/ATI GPUs is now available.

AMD/ATI has released the first of the documentation for their GPUs. http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/42589_rv630_rrg_1.01o.pdf 6404655 bytes http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/RRG-216M56-03oOEM.pdf 7013853 bytes ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list

SiI 3124 and Re: External SATA JBOD

>> I am thinking about adding an external Case with 4 haddrives to my >> server that should not be running 247. In ancient times this was done >> via SCSI and simply worked (turn on, rescan SCSI, mount). I suppose you could still use SCSI today if you don't mind paying $C$I price$. If the only

Re: no cd0/pass0 devices under 7.0 (though acd0 is there)

> > > What can I do to bring cd0/pass0 back? > > Check your config file for > > device atapicam > That's it, thanks a lot! > > Btw, when did this behavior change and why's there's no atapicam in > GENERIC config? Or was it never there actually and I'm missing something? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi

Re: no cd0/pass0 devices under 7.0 (though acd0 is there)

> > I still think that it should work out of the box. > > It does. "kldload atapicam" works perfectly. It does *not* work out of the box. You have to know to add device atapicam to the config file, or to kldload atapicam. "man -k dvd" does not yield anything helpful. This is at least the 2nd ti

PCIe SATA controllers, are JMB363 or Sil3132 good?

Looking for a PCIe SATA controller. Are the JMB363 or Sil3132 any good? Any limitations (including speed) or problems? Other controllers to consider? I don't need RAID. More than 2 ports per card would be a significant plus. The 3124 has 4 ports, but the PCI slots are all full. :-(

Re: Freebsd 7 amd64 need clarification on SAS controller

> Also there is this > > hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 > 10:34:18) > hptrr: no controller detected. > > Since I do not have a HPT RocketRAID controller why does it still load in on > the boot up? > > is there an explanation for this? Comment out the line dev

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

> Finally, the behaviour you're experiencing with your machine (re: the > progress bar stalling 2/3rds of the way through) sounds almost as if the > hard disks aren't spinning up quick enough after a soft reset from > within FreeBSD or Linux 2.4. The disks should have spun up long before a reset g

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

> > > > the next step im going > > > > to take is installing 6.2 and remaking the world but adding device > > > > aptic to the kernel. > > > > > > I think you mean "device apic" to the kernel? > > > > No, it is "device aptic". It was in 6 but removed from 7. I had to add > > aptic to get my nfo

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

> Im really not too concerned about the bios bug. i just figured it might be a > side effect of freebsd not being able access the disks. just out of > curiosity though, before i upgrade 6.2 to 7.0 again, what is the atpic > device supposed to do? My understanding is that atpic is the old way of ma

Re: software null modems

> I need a null modem and all I can find is straight through db25 cables > and I want to avoid the paper clip trick if I can. So is there any way > to create a null modem in software only? Google can find lots of them, 25 pin or 9 pin, dongle or cable, ... http://www.google.com/products?as_q=&n

Open Graphics Project is now taking pre-orders

The Open Graphics Project is now taking pre-orders for the OGD1 development board. This PCI-X board has 2 FPGA chips and video outputs (2 heads). List price is $1500, the first 100 orders get a $100 discount. There are developer discounts available, so someone writing a BSD device driver, or wor

Re: Open Graphics Project is now taking pre-orders

> I'm just curious here, but why PCI-X, why not PCI-EXpress ? > or is this obviously for development reasons. According to the FAQ, While most graphics cards now fit in PCI Express slots, PCI is more popular with users of FPGA kits. We have identified the parts necessary t

Re: Open Graphics Project is now taking pre-orders

> I think what people (not just here, but folks on Slashdot as well) want > to know is: is the PCI-X choice *purely* for development reasons, e.g. > will the retail/non-development version (read: transistor-based, no > FPGA) of the card be PCIe? > > If the manufacturer plans on keeping everything

Foxconn BIOS (and maybe others?) has ACPI problems

His diplomatic skills could use polishing, but if he is right about the BIOS it could explain some ACPI problems. Note that he lists FreeBSD as well as Linux as not working in his letter to the FTC. http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249 __

Re: IBM eServer x225 - LSI 1030 SCSI - BTX Halted / infinite loop - Need help booting recompiled kernel so i can install

> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my IBM eServer x225 (8647-5CG) > (1x Xeon 2.8GHz(512KB), 2x 2048MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM (ecc), 2x 74GB 10K rpm > U320 HDD, Ultra320 SCSI LSI 1030 controller, 48x CD-ROM, Broadcom NetXtreme > 10/100/1000 Integrated Ethernet, ATI Rage XL) > Then it stops. > If i re

Re: Test: HighPoint RocketRaid 3120 PCIex1 2xSATA controller under FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

> If you get about the same scores with dd, try using a higher read-ahead > (vfs.read_max value, set it to 32 for example). Also sometimes it's > required to use a higher blocksize to get full potential, try: > > newfs -U -b 32768 /dev/ > > Warning: using 64KiB blocksize you risk hanging the syst

Re: alpha/127248: System crashes when many (7) serial port terminals (vt320-vt510) connected to the server via com to usb adapter and 2-usb hubs.

[ -hardware@ list added to existing -alpha@ thread as this doesn't seem to be alpha specific ] > This is because USB is absolutely crap for this purpose. > RS232 terminals, especially with long cables, can produce several kind > of spikes and ground loops, which USB is very very sensitive about.

Re: alpha/127248: System crashes when many (7) serial port terminals (vt320-vt510) connected to the server via com to usb adapter and 2-usb hubs.

[ -usb@ added to existing thread ] > > > This is because USB is absolutely crap for this purpose. > > > RS232 terminals, especially with long cables, can produce several kind > > > of spikes and ground loops, which USB is very very sensitive about. > > > > Many things about USB are crap (thanks,

Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus P5Q Pro

>> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to >> it. I have an older LG PATA combo drive which works ok. Does it show up when booting? (Does dmesg work from the installation shell?) Maybe you need to "kldload atapicam" ? Or is that only needed for writing, I f

Re: alpha/127248: System crashes when many (7) serial port terminals (vt320-vt510) connected to the server via com to usb adapter and 2-usb hubs.

> > Surely a "good" USB to RS-232 bridge (if one exists?) or a RS-232 > > filter/isolator (assuming they exist?) would be *far* less expensive > > than the server class alpha you suggest below. > > It depend on how much RS232 you need and how many slots the OP has free. > Nevertheless a "good" RS2

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

> FreeBSD 7.0-Release > Intel D975XBX2 motherboard (Intel Matrix Storage Technology) > 3 WD Raptor 74 GB in a RAID 5 array > 1 WD Raptor 150 GB as a standalone disk > / and /var mounted on the standalone,, /usr on the RAID 5 > I believe what happened was that one of the disks didn't respond for suc

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

> > My personal approach to avoiding data loss is (a) avoid buggy things like > > inthell and linux. > > Interesting, being as we have another thread going as of late that seems > to link transparent data loss with AMD AM2-based systems with certain > models of Adaptec and possibly LSI Logic contr

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

> > > I like Intel as much as I like AMD > > > > That is your right. Inthell has a long history of buggy products, > > attempting to hide/ignore bugs, poor customer support, outright > > theft, etc. AMD isn't perfect, but the list of bad things is far > > far shorter. And there are other compan

Re: Areca vs. ZFS performance testing.

>> For the array(s) >> 9 x ST31000340AS 1tb disks >> 1 x ST31000333AS 1tb disk (trying to swap this for a ST31000340AS) > There seems to be little difference between enabling and disabling the > disk cache on the Areca. This leads me to two conclusions: > 1. Disabling the write cache does

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

> > I'm looking to buy a Promise SATA300 TX4302 (PCI->[e]SATA) card to > > use for external backups on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE system. Can anyone > > share their experiences with this one? > > >>> Use Hardware Controllers - such as 3ware > > >>> > > >> > > >> I'm not quite getting w

Re: Promise SATA300 TX4302 feedback?

> > Your motherboard needs to be PCI 2.2 or 2.3 complaint according to the > > manual (you need to tell us what the board is for us to help here). > > Most should be unless they are very old (later Pentium III Coppermine > > onwards should be ok). > > Thanks Mark -- that's exactly what I was as

Re: PATA DVD on Asus P5Q Pro

> The PATA-133/IDE interface is implemented via an additional Marvell > 88SE6111 controller (SATA is driven via ICH10R). > > My problem is that the DVD drive is not seen by FreeBSD, although it > is seen by the BIOS in the boot up phase. In the previous post Jeremy > Chadwick kindly pointed out t

Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.

Most of you have read about the problems with Seagate's 7200.11 disks. For those of you that haven't, the firmware on many of these drives is buggy, and can "brick" the drive when powering up or rebooting the system. Thus far, Seagate's response has been less than wonderful. We need a FLOSS solu

JMB363 and hotplugging?

SATA is supposed to support hotplugging, but I tried it with the nforce4-ultra and the kernel (FreeBSD 7.0 amd64) hung. :-( Does hotplugging work properly with the JMB363 SATA controller? ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: JMB363 and hotplugging?

> > SATA is supposed to support hotplugging, but I tried it with > > the nforce4-ultra and the kernel (FreeBSD 7.0 amd64) hung. :-( > > Of course you connected disks through a SATA backplane, > which performs all the management.. Management? What management? umount swapoff (and allow time for i

Re: SATA PCI adapter recommendation

> I plan to put a SATA drive in an old PATA-only PC, so I'm > looking for an appropriate adapter card. A cheap card > should suffice, I do not need RAID, and it does not have > to be SATA-300. > 1. Based on Silicon Image Sil-3x12 chip: > http://www.digital-data.de/download/datasheets/111816_Datas

Inexpensive, low power, "wall wart" computer

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html This looks promising: a $100 ($50 in volume) 5 Watt computer. 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB each of RAM and Flash Marvell 88F6281 "Kirkwood" SoC gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0 ports Looks like the SoC also has a 2nd Ethernet port, 2 SATA parts, PCIe and other stuf

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

>> - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but >> there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? >> - two SiI3132-based (Adaptec 1420SA and many others) - as cheap PCIe x1 >> alternative (max 150MB/s per card). These two better support

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

In message <4b0176e7.7080...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: > >>> - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but > >>> there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. > > > > Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? > > I was surprised, but yes. My google-fu fails me. A

Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD

In message <511ceec9-7721-4e51-ad7c-a98e59299...@patpro.net>, Patrick Proniewski writes: > I've just found this: > > > Does anybody has given this card a try? > Unfortunately I can't find the brand of the chip they are usi

PCIe-x1 SATA controllers (was: Re: Adaptec 1405 on FreeBSD )

In message <4b027c3e.7020...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: > > - SiI3124-based - fast and functional. It is actually PCI-X one, but > > there are many boards with built-in PCIe bridges. > >>> Do any of these fit in a x1 slot? > >> I was surprised, but yes. > > > > My google-fu fail

Re: Marvell MV88SX6081 on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

In message <4b13159d.9010...@darkbsd.org>, Stephane LAPIE writes: > On FreeBSD 8.0, attempting to scrub a ZFS pool results in a few I/O > bursts (confirmed with zpool iostat), before totally freezing down and > locking the ZFS pool (the system is still up and only ZFS based file > systems are unus

Re: Marvell MV88SX6081 on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

In message <4b1392cf.5090...@darkbsd.org>, Stephane LAPIE writes: > >> Therefore, I am inclined to think the motherboard/memory (a "TYAN > >> Thunder K8WE S2895") would be at fault here, > >=20 > > I have been told that Tyan does a good job with memory, although even > > assuming that's true it co

Support for Broadcom "Crystal HD" video decoder chips?

The Broadcom "Crystal HD" BCM7001x series video decoder chips look very promising. Decodes mpeg2, H.264, etc. up to 1080p TDP of ~2 watts Drivers are available for OS-X, Linux and virus-server, so the info needed to create BSD drivers should be available. Firmware is appariently binary-only, gru

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

>From another thread awhile back, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ] Anything that ] uses a Prolific chip will work well (supports custom serial rates, and ] does not drop/lose characters). The uplcom(4) driver is for this chip, ] and the man page lists off some consumer models/devices available. Also fro

siis(4) questions

The siis(4) man page promises a ada(4) man page, but I can't find it. Even tried the online man page tool. dmesg says: ada0 at siisch0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x device ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers ada0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C

Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as "Reserved" after each reboot

> I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to system, > and almost lost my sanity: "gstripe" configuration becomes lost after > each reboot. After some investigation, I found, that after each reboot > last sector of disk contains SiI meta-information instead of > GEOM:STRIPE one. I

Re: PCI-X SATA (non HW-RAID) controller recommendation

Moritz writes: >> Can you (or someone else for that matter) recommend any decent PCI-X >> controller for use in "serious environments" >> I heard Silicon Image cards are supposed to be good? > Just wondering, do you (or anyone else) know whether there are PCI-X > SATA controllers with only 4 Port

Re: PCI-X SATA (non HW-RAID) controller recommendation

> having SMART work is probably a good idea Note that some (most?) of the USB-to-SATA bridges do not provide access to SMART, at least not on FreeBSD. Also can't turn off the write buffer, and no NCQ, and pathetically slow. >> I have the Silicon Image 3132 which is PCIe-x1 with 2 sata ports. >> N

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

grarpamp writes: > Plenty of millionaires > out there now who are in tune with opensource who could startup, > buy the same ARM/ATOM/etc chips, the same support chips, load > Android and sell it to the masses. Would you please post a list of these millionaire FLOSS entrepreneurs? Thank you. __

Re: Server memory problems

> It seems really unlikely that I got bad memory in two separate orders. Test the new memory by itself, keeping at or below the 64 GB you know works. Then you will know if the board is happy with the new memory or not. If the mainboard supported configurations allow, test all slots while keeping

Re: Server memory problems

>> because the machine needs more electricity with the extra modules. If it >> is at the limits without, it could go behind > with the additional modules >> installed. > > Interesting. The chassis has dual 900W power supplies. Apart from simply > replacing them, I am not sure how I can verify wheth

Re: ahcich Timeouts SATA SSD

> SSD are connected to on-board SATA port on motherboard Presumably to controllers provided by the Intel Tylersburg 5520 chipset. > This system was commissioned in February of 2012 and ran without issue > as a ZFS backup system on our network until about 3 weeks ago. > The system is dual PSU beh

Re: FreeBSD on RaspberryPi

> If someone knows how to get the video out > to work, I'm very interested! Technically, there is a fully open-source graphics stack. The bad news is that they moved the functionality into the binary-only firmware, which makes fixing bugs a bit more difficult. I haven't hunted down the actual cod

Seeking BSD friendly video card

Seeking a video card that is completely documented and is fully supported (with source code) by the BSDs. A gpu-less framebuffer is fine. (No videogaming) PCIe At least 2560x1440 (for 27" displays) (analog can be lower resolution) 2560x1600 (30" displays) would be better 4096x2560 (4K displays)

OGP needs a wiki maintainer

The Open Graphics Project is designing a video card that is completely documented and FLOSS-friendly. We need someone to maintain our wiki. This is a volunteer (unpaid) job, but would look great on your resume/cv, and is a way for someone with software skills to help create open hardware. The serv

FLOSS-friendly DSP chip?

Looking for a FLOSS-friendly (documented, has a toolchain, ...) DSP chip for an expansion card. Anyone know of such a beast? ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Reset Problem with SATA Port Multiplier

> Drives: 45 * Seagate Altos ST3000NC002 > Port Multipliers: 9 * SiI3826 > SATA Controller: 3 * Marvell 88SX7042 > > After a few hours of a database-like workload over ZFS (NCQ enable, disk > write caches disabled), a disk becomes unresponsive (we think due to a > drive firmware problem): I have a

Re: Reset Problem with SATA Port Multiplier

> I've heard, that only SiI3132 (2 port controller) works really well with > port multipliers > But we should wait answer from Alexander Motin (mav@) to be sure :) I've heard the theory that you are better off matching a Silicon Image port multiplier with a Silicon Image controller (e.g. 3132 or 3

Re: Reset Problem with SATA Port Multiplier

Bob writes: > After a few hours of a database-like workload A faster way to trigger the problem would be useful. > We're actually more interested in archive type workloads than this > database workload and we have not observed the problem with an archive > workload. So perhaps something about th

Re: Getting documentation. ( Was [...] SATA Port Multiplier)

Willem writes: > Marvell is among the hardest to get the stuff from. One wonders how they expect to sell parts? > Perhaps this is somethings you could also do for this problem. Find a > coorperative PM board manufacturer, and bigback on their support with > the promise to "support" their PM boar

Re: Inexpensive PCI SATA, anyone?

> I'm quite content with all other parts of the box, but controller is > VERY slow. > > Can anyone recommend me inexpensive and reasonably fast PCI SATA with > 2-4 ports? > According to dmidecode, the box has PCI-E slot, x4 PCI Express, long. Note that "PCI" and "PCI Express" are different. JMic

sata port multiplier recommendations?

I have a couple of the SII3726 sata port multipliers, and they have been working fairly well, but one of them appears to be dying fast. Looking around, I see that they are finally making PMs that claim to do sata-3 speeds. Do any of these work well with BSD? Any to avoid? Is it safe to assume th

cpu/mainboard recommendations?

Current machine is getting flakier by the day (hour?), I need to get a new one before something vital dies altogether. want list: non-inthell ecc smp (4 is probably about right) lots of sata ports (with NCQ, PM(FIS), hotplug, ...), sata3 if possible 1 or 2 PCI slots would be good, the re

Re: Zoned Commands ZBC/ZAC, Shingled SMR drives, ZFS

>> You can also find these drives inside the STDT8000100 external >> USB unit for a bit more at $300. It may or may not be the same. There are stories that it is difficult or impossible to talk directly to the drives in recent USB units without the usb-to-sata bridge. I have yet to find a usb-to

PCIe to USB to PCIe

A very small PCIe x1 card with USB 3.0 controller, a USB cable, and a small pcb with a PCIe x16 slot. Intended to allow using x16 video cards with x1 slots, and reducing power/space/cooling demands on mainboard. Claim: "No Driver necessary" Can these things possibly work? If they do, it seems t

ECC support

Many of AMD's CPU/APU parts support ECC memory. Not just the top of the line parts, but also many of the less expensive, less power hungry parts. However, many (most?) of the boards for these chips do not support ECC, or at least do not admit to it. They specify "non-ECC memory". Obviously there

Re: ECC support

Andriy: >> Assuming that a board does have the necessary connections but >> the firmware does not have ECC support, is there some reason that >> ECC support could not be added to the OS instead of the firmware? > > Yes, there is. The memory controller is programmed by the code that > runs from ROM

Re: ECC support

It appears that they are no longer selling the MSI 880GMA-E45. There used to be a web page with useful info about how well various boards worked with FreeBSD. My notes say it was http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html but that URL now gives: "Page not found. Oh no. :(" Don: > S

PCIe multipliers, how do they work?

Looking into ways to get additional expansion slots, since board designers cannot count past 7 and often not even that high. :-( There are PCIe riser cards that split a wide slot into 2 or more narrower slots, for example 1 x8 slot becomes 2 x4 slots. These would be very useful, except it appears