Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset?


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

Barney Cordoba wrote:
Søren Schmidt wrote:
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...


A sticky point on this end is that it will cost
more
to ship you a system than the cost of the product;
you
being in Europe and the US dollar sucking in
general.
I'm also not going to be able to get authorization
to
ship overseas.


Maybe I can get the HW over here, paypal can be used
to transfer the
funds in that case...
Could you send me the config file you're using on
your
7.0 system with the H8SSL MB so I can give it a
try
and see if its a config issue, or some device
conflict? You have the MB we're having trouble
with,
so maybe we can learn enough to give you some
ideas.I
have a system with an H8SSL-i that just plain
doesn't
work with either SATA or IDE.

Sure find my config attached currently used with
plain releng_7.
It might be worth while to compare HW revisions etc
as well as there
might be differences.
One thing you could try would be to install a 6.2
system and if that
still works just grap ATA from releng_6 as that is
now the same as in
-current and should fit almost cleanly into 6.2 as
is, then give that a
run. Depending on the outcome we'll know more about
where to look for
the problem.

For references sake could we please get a list of
the actual HW that
people have problems with listed here, as detailed
as possible please.

-Søren

machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident DEEPCORE

makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1)
debug symbols
makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE=""

options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread
preemption
options INET # InterNETworking
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates
support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control
lists
options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big
directories
options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client
options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server
options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires
PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP
THIS!]
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
options COMPAT_FREEBSD6 # Compatible with FreeBSD6
options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX
P1003_1B realtime extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in
/dev
options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.

# Firewall stuff.
options IPFIREWALL
options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
options IPDIVERT
options DUMMYNET

# Basic HW infrastructure support.
device apic # I/O APIC
device acpi # ACPI support

# Bus support.
device pci

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device ataraid # ATA RAID drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
device atausb # USB device support
#options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2
mouse
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling
an SCO console
device sc
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver
support
device vga # VGA video card driver
device agp # support several AGP chipsets

# Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
device pmtimer

# Serial (COM) ports
device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus
controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in
order to use these NICs!
device miibus # MII bus support
device bge # Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
device de # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')

# Pseudo devices.
device loop # Network loopback
device random # Entropy device
device ether # Ethernet support
device tun # Packet tunnel.
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling

# The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet
Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of
enabling this!
# Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP.
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter

# USB support
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
device usb # USB Bus (required)
#device udbp # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device ulpt # Printer
device ums # Mouse
_______________________________________________

This is the HW info on the MBs we've tested. Both of
them run fine on 6.2 and both don't work at all in any
mode on 7.0. We've tried the 6.2 code in the 7.0
system, with the same problem. So it doesn't appear to
be the ATA code specifically.

Opteron / HT1000 details:

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron1000/HT1000/H8SSL-i2.cfm

Supermicro H8SSL-i2 Opteron 1000-series AM2
Motherboard with:
AMD Opteron 1222 3.0GHz Dual-Core CPU (running UP)
2x512MB Corsair DDR2 PC2-4200


http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/HT2000/H8SSP-i.cfm

Supermicro H8SSP-i Opteron 200-series Motherboard
with:
AMD Opteron 244 1.8GHz CPU
2x512MB Corsair PC3200 Registered DDR


Barney



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