Re: SATA Failure Introduced between 6.0 and 6.1-RC1

Jared wrote:
Hi -stable!

I'd like to bring something to the attention of -stable that was posted to -amd64 but has not yet being resolved:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/95554

I'm unable to test to see if this occurs on i386 aswell so am unsure if this is the right list to post to. But it appears to me that it would be something that should be addressed prior to 6.1-RELEASE.

Hi all. This does indeed occur on i386 also. I had a drive die in a machine this past week and replaced it with two brand new Seagate 80GB SATA 300 drives to do mirroring, but 6.1-RELEASE only detects one of the drives (and only the one on the primary SATA channel even if I switch them around).

Upon finding this PR, I tried 6.0-RELEASE and it detected both drives on the install, so I went ahead and installed 6.0 to use until there is a fix since this is a production workstation. Unfortunately, I forgot that I was running 6.1-PRERELEASE on the previous install because none of the controllers on my board (MSI K8NGM2 - nForce4) are detected in 6.0, and instead run as "GENERIC" at UDMA33.

I don't have the latest BIOS since it requires Windows to update, but the summary for all updates show mainly CPU things...nothing related to ATA/SATA/RAID.

I'm trying to decide if I should use 6.0 with the "GENERIC" controller and reduced speeds since it needs to be operational, or try the nve patches to fix the onboard LAN so I can free up a PCI slot and then put in a known working SATA controller that would be recognized and at full speeds. Not meant as pressure in any to the developers, but I'm wondering if you guys think it will be a while before this is fixed so I can make an informed decision on hardware purchases or not and get this machine back up.

Thanks in advance!

-Mark

I am experiencing the same problem as described in the original PR, but with Western Digital hard drives and the latest BIOS version (1001) which is known to fix the ACPI DSDT bugs that have plagued these boards.

I have not liased with the mailling lists before if you need any more information please ask and I'll supply what I can as best I can. But the original PR is well written.

I will also see if RC-2 resolves this when cvsup has RC2 and I can build an RC2 world/kernel.

Cheers
and Thanks for a great operating system

Jared

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