serial ATA support?

2004-11-02 Thread Yury Tarasievich
Do I understand right (after looking into sources) that 4-STABLE has no support for serial ATA devices?? regards ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: serial ATA support?

2004-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Yury Tarasievich wrote: Do I understand right (after looking into sources) that 4-STABLE has no support for serial ATA devices?? Almost none, it works with a few controllers that looks like stock ATA ones (HPT fx). Anyhow you want 5.3 to get real SATA support.. -- -Søren

Re: serial ATA support?

2004-11-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
However if you're stuck in that "I need something now, and 5.3 isn't it" space, you can look at SATA drives and a hardware raid controller from 3Ware or Adaptec... Charles On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Søren Schmidt wrote: Yury Tarasievich wrote: Do I understand right (after looking into sour

Re: serial ATA support?

2004-11-03 Thread Yury Tarasievich
Søren Schmidt wrote: Yury Tarasievich wrote: Do I understand right (after looking into sources) that 4-STABLE has no support for serial ATA devices?? Almost none, it works with a few controllers that looks like stock ATA ones (HPT fx). Anyhow you want 5.3 to get real SATA support.. I see. And "n

VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2003-10-06 Thread Sean Hamilton
I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board. Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller, am I safe in assuming this will not be supported for some time? I have tw

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2003-10-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: > I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board. > Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on > the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller, > am I safe in assuming this will not be

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2003-10-06 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 06 October 2003 12:10 am, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: > > > > I have two Asus boards (A7V8X and A7V) which have in common a > > Promise ATA controller. Both of these boards hang up for about a > > minute during the boot of 5.1-RELEASE, and emit messages about ad

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-01-30 Thread Sean Hamilton
"Soren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: | | I have two Asus boards (A7V8X and A7V) which have in common a | | Promise ATA controller. Both of these boards hang up for about a | | minute during the boot of 5.1-RELEASE, and emit messages about ad* | | devices bein

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-01-30 Thread Søren Schmidt
Sean Hamilton wrote: "Soren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: | | I have two Asus boards (A7V8X and A7V) which have in common a | | Promise ATA controller. Both of these boards hang up for about a | | minute during the boot of 5.1-RELEASE, and emit messages about

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-02-01 Thread Sean Hamilton
"Søren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | These are not "hangs" these are "pauses" and happens because the | kernel thinks there are devices on these channels (are there ? no | dmesg provided) and waits for the 31secs the spec calls for. Now, | I have one of those exact Promise controllers and t

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-02-01 Thread Søren Schmidt
Sean Hamilton wrote: "Søren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | These are not "hangs" these are "pauses" and happens because the | kernel thinks there are devices on these channels (are there ? no | dmesg provided) and waits for the 31secs the spec calls for. Now, | I have one of those exact Prom

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2004-02-08 Thread Sean Hamilton
"Søren Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hmm, those hangs are just time spent waiting for drives (that in this | case are not there, but it can be difficult to tell). Could we have a tunable timeout, or some means of disabling the device altogether? My BIOS gives no such option. I've noticed i