Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset?

Barney Cordoba wrote:
--- Søren Schmidt <sos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 07:26 AM 11/21/2007, Barney Cordoba wrote:
I've done a bit of research and it seems that
this
chipset has been ignored for years now by the
FreeBSD
team. Whats the reasoning for a major chipset
used by
I think you are jumping to conclusions. I have a
HT1000 chipset board
and have been using it just fine for some time.

(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/079920.html)
There obviously are some cases were it does not,
so its harder to
track down than just a case of spending $150. If
you do have such a
board that does not work, perhaps make the offer
of sending the
problem board to a developer who is interested in
fixing the issue.
That would be an excelent idea :)

As usual I'll try to get any ATA/SATA HW that shows
up on my doorstep working, thats the deal.
I dont have the means nor the motivation to spend my
own hard earned $$ on all kinds of HW to get someone out there free
support, simple as that..

That said, I do have a HT1000 based board around a
supermicro H8SSL that is used as a busy local fileserver, needless to say
it works flawlessly.

So, to get this worked on and hopefully fixed, get
me a failing board to work on here... private mail with address details
etc can be had on request...

-Søren


Is your busy file server running 7.0, and is it
running in SATA mode? The MBs we've tried are H8SSP-i
and an H8SSL-i, both with the same, unsuccessful
results: bad file reads, signals when trying to run
apps, crash-and-burn on buildworld wthin 5 seconds.
This server has been running -current all the time with about biweekly updates, so it has made the transition all the way from about 6.1 to todays current without problems.
Something happened between 6.2 and 7.0, as we were
able to run 6.2 on these systems.

Looks like a pattern, something outside of ATA also caused HW issues on some Promise controllers to appear in this period.
Just checked and nothing in ATA changed in regards to either the HT1000 or the Promise HW, its the same support code thats been there all the time.
It could be a sideeffect of now having more fine grained locking etc, that makes these problems show up, your guess is as good as mine.

Again, the sticky point is that if I cant reproduce a problem here its very hard to work on it, if not just plain impossible...

-Søren

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