Problems with ata driver on current / Asus P5Q-E

[scott.gasch at gmail.com]

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
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> + 1 SATA DVD-RW
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> The ICH is in RAID mode.
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> Attached my conf and dmesg
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> Which version of BIOS use You?
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> [snip]
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> Southbridge
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> - 6 x SATA 3Gb/s
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> - Intel(R) Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
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> Marvell 88SE6121
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> - 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
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> - 1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
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> Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert technology)
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> - 2 x SATA 3Gb/s
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> - Supports EZ Backup and Super Speed functions
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> [snip]
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http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=709&l4=0&model=2267&modelmenu=2
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> /* sorry for bad english */
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> On 1/24/09, Scott Gasch scott.gasch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I've been running a 7.1-p1 (amd64) system and and seeing very high  
interrupt
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> > rates on irq19 which is shared between several devices. Over 60% of one
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> > core is used responding to interrupts. The machine also hangs  
frequently.
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> > irq19 is shared by atapci1, atapci2, fwohci0 and uhci4...
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> > the consensus response to my last question was that "it's probably the  
ata
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> > driver".
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> >
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> > Today I tried building and booting a GENERIC current kernel and got  
another
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> > piece of information. The freebsd-current GENERIC kernel does not boot;
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> > shortly after probing the drives it says "Cannot setup DMA" several  
times on
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> > the console and hangs.
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> >
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> > This machine is an Asus P5Q-E... I believe it has two ATA controllers:
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> > a Marvell
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> > 88SE6121 and a Silicon Image SIL5723. Is one of these chipsets  
generating
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> > interrupts that the driver doesn't understand and/or properly dismiss?  
Can
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> > it be put into a legacy mode that works? This machine has problems in  
7.0,
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> > 7.1 and current... I'm running out of ideas.
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> >
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> > Thx,
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> > Scott
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