Problems with ata driver on current / Asus P5Q-E

[Oliver Pinter]

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On 1/25/09, scott.gasch at gmail.com <scott.gasch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'm running bios version 02.61 American Megatrends
> Inc; it has never been updated. I just got the latest image (1703) from
> ASUS and will try flashing it.
>
> I don't have my controller set on RAID because I don't want hardware
> RAID... it's set on AHCI instead. Maybe this is the difference. Are you
> doing hardware RAID?
>
> I'm still looking over your config and dmesg, thanks for sending those.
> I'll report back if I figure anything out.
>
> Thx,
> Scott
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2009 7:49am, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have the same MB, and it running perfect, but I have only 3 SATA HDD
>>
>> + 1 SATA DVD-RW
>>
>>
>>
>> The ICH is in RAID mode.
>>
>>
>>
>> Attached my conf and dmesg
>>
>>
>>
>> Which version of BIOS use You?
>>
>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Southbridge
>>
>> - 6 x SATA 3Gb/s
>>
>> - Intel(R) Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
>>
>> Marvell 88SE6121
>>
>> - 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
>>
>> - 1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
>>
>> Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert technology)
>>
>> - 2 x SATA 3Gb/s
>>
>> - Supports EZ Backup and Super Speed functions
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>
>>
> http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=709&l4=0&model=2267&modelmenu=2
>>
>>
>>
>> /* sorry for bad english */
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/24/09, Scott Gasch scott.gasch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>> > I've been running a 7.1-p1 (amd64) system and and seeing very high
> interrupt
>>
>> > rates on irq19 which is shared between several devices. Over 60% of one
>>
>> > core is used responding to interrupts. The machine also hangs
> frequently.
>>
>> > irq19 is shared by atapci1, atapci2, fwohci0 and uhci4...
>>
>> > the consensus response to my last question was that "it's probably the
> ata
>>
>> > driver".
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Today I tried building and booting a GENERIC current kernel and got
> another
>>
>> > piece of information. The freebsd-current GENERIC kernel does not boot;
>>
>> > shortly after probing the drives it says "Cannot setup DMA" several
> times on
>>
>> > the console and hangs.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > This machine is an Asus P5Q-E... I believe it has two ATA controllers:
>>
>> > a Marvell
>>
>> > 88SE6121 and a Silicon Image SIL5723. Is one of these chipsets
> generating
>>
>> > interrupts that the driver doesn't understand and/or properly dismiss?
> Can
>>
>> > it be put into a legacy mode that works? This machine has problems in
> 7.0,
>>
>> > 7.1 and current... I'm running out of ideas.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Thx,
>>
>> > Scott
>>
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