Good morning, everyone! There seems to have been some changes made concerning the supported Promise controllers. I have a SATA TX2Plus (PDC20775 chip). This is a sort of hybrid for SATA and PATA - it can run two drives of both. Until today I got this running with a sort of hack I found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg00553.html That worked fine until today. Now the PDC40775 (which is supposed to be the same device if you believe google) has the same ID and the controller is identified as such. The result is this (in dmesg): ad8: req=0xc398a000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !! Along with a crash of a process that couldn't even be stopped by a kill -9! Can someone tell me how to fix this? Regards Chris
Christian Baer wrote:> Good morning, everyone! > > There seems to have been some changes made concerning the supported > Promise controllers. > > I have a SATA TX2Plus (PDC20775 chip). This is a sort of hybrid for SATA > and PATA - it can run two drives of both. > > Until today I got this running with a sort of hack I found here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg00553.html > > That worked fine until today. Now the PDC40775 (which is supposed to be > the same device if you believe google) has the same ID and the > controller is identified as such. The result is this (in dmesg): > > ad8: req=0xc398a000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !! > > Along with a crash of a process that couldn't even be stopped by a > kill -9! > > Can someone tell me how to fix this? >Not of much help to you I'm afraid :-( , but a couple of us see a very similar error with the SX4060 (PDC20621) - same chip as the SX4000 which works perfectly for S?ren, so I'll be very interested to find out what is going on with this! Cheers Mark
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:33:24 +1300 Mark Kirkwood wrote:> Not of much help to you I'm afraid :-( , but a couple of us see a very > similar error with the SX4060 (PDC20621) - same chip as the SX4000 which > works perfectly for S?ren, so I'll be very interested to find out what > is going on with this!Doesn't really help, correct. :-) In my case however, the chip isn't even the same. I'm not sure what exactly is happening here, but there seems to be one version of my controller out there with a PDC20775 (which I have[1]) and one with ad PDC40775. I don't know what the differences are, but since FreeBSD 6-STABLE was running (as such) until a few days ago (that's when the controller was recognized as a 40775), I am guessing that there is some difference in these chips, even if not much. Maybe I'll mess around with the code a little. :-) Regards Chris