Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Wiki for discussing P35/IHC9(R)/SATA issues set up

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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
LI Xin wrote:
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The default behaviour should be fixed if it is so easy then.

How come the number is so important for you? What do you think if you
have to drop into single user mode and adjust fstab manually and the box
is several thousands of miles away from you after a simple 'make
kernel'? I think changing this behavior is a big POLA and not the right
thing to do.

It prevents certain automated config issues that may or may not be
issues as stuff moves more mass market... I know FreeBSD unlike Linux
has no aim to be a non-techinical enduser OS but I find my self
increasingly recommended it as the prefered UNIX desktop enviroment
because so stability and the general ease of using the ports/pkg system
compared to RPM's... sad to say many of the end-user oriented tools
occasionally make naive but critical assumptions about how a machine is
layed out.

Which tool? This is apparently a bug of the tool, because the tool
won't work on Solaris either.

- Wrong SATA type/speed reported
More information is needed if you really want to have this problem
resolved, like atacontrol output, etc.

See the SATA ihc9 and previous threads if you really need to know all
the messy details but the bottom line is I have been told by several of
the ATA developers that since they do not have IHC9 machines P35/IHC9
owners where on their own (and thus the need for informal group the wiki
is aimed at)

Please provide links on the wiki if you really want it to be useful.

I am at the end of a long day so I will dig the links up and post them
tommorow (and send you copies)

I think the only ich9 issue I am aware of so far is that a specific
model of it is not recognized. This is fixed in HEAD and RELENG_7.

If you don't have an ICH machine I invite you to get one and verify the
issues ;-)

Mine has no problem, and I can not afford to buy a new piece of hardware
right now.

2. The answer to the type/speed type issue from the commuhity is the
same one I got here

Is the problem still exist for latest RELENG_7 and RELENG_6? Who can
provide some basic testing for a new snapshot?


I csup my version of -CURRENT every day (do a buildkernel anytime there
are more then 10 commulative changes):

FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 3 21:33:49
EDT 2007 aryeh@monster:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64

and do a build world about once a week plus a ground up rebuild of all
ports twice a month... in other words I am as current as anyone and the
issues still persist.

PCI ID and dmesg?

No, it does not help if that's just "it panics", "foo is not supported"
if no detailed information is provided and we don't have our hands on
the actual hardware.

I have submitted the complete verbose dmesg, pciutil -l and everything
to several people and all of them have come to the conclusion that there
is no obvious smoking gone beyond ("it just doesn't work")... Thus the
comment of ICH9 owners are on their own... Next time I reboot I will
send you a copy if you really want it.

Yes, please. These information is very important for knowing how to
change the situation, thanks.

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij@xxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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