VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

[Wes Peters]

On Monday 06 October 2003 12:10 am, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Sean Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >   I have two Asus boards (A7V8X and A7V) which have in common a
> > Promise ATA controller. Both of these boards hang up for about a
> > minute during the boot of 5.1-RELEASE, and emit messages about ad*
> > devices being reset -- I cannot paste them verbatim as they seem to
> > have been omitted from my dmesg. In the case of the A7V8X, the
> > controller is unused and disabled in the BIOS. Has this been
> > rectified for 5.2?
>
> Should not happen on -current.

I haven't seen this on my A7V, running a week-old -current:

atapci0: <VIA 8235 UDMA133 controller> port 0xb000-0xb00f at device 17.1 
on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00CRA1> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CD-RW <HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B> at ata1-master PIO4

The system is quite fast; it outperforms my P4 2.0 workstation at work on 
'worldstones' by several minutes.

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com