freebsd stable - Oct 2008 - Promise SX4060 on 7.1-BETA2

I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise
SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives.

The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm
retyping here)

============================================================================================ad4:
WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE task queue timeout - completing
request directly
ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE task queue timeout - completing
request directly
ad4: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE task queue timeout - completing
request directly
ad4: WARNING - SET_MULTI task queue timeout - completing request directly
ad4: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0
ad4: FAILURE - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0
ad4: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0
ad4: FAILURE - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0

ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out
ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out
ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out
ad4: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET_MULTI timed out

ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata2-master PIO4

ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE task queue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE task queue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE task queue timeout - completing
request directly
ad8: WARNING - SET_MULTI task queue timeout - completing request directly
ad8: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0
ad8: FAILURE - READ retrying (1 retry left) LBA=0
ad8: FAILURE - READ timed out LBA=0
ad8: FAILURE - READ retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0

ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE timed out
ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE timed out
ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE timed out
ad8: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET_MULTI timed out

ad8: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata4-master PIO4
============================================================================================
and then these messages (and minor variants) keep repeating (I've let it go
for at least one hour).

I have about three dozen of these computers (from a failed M$ project) and
would very much like to use them with FreeBSD.

Any ideas?  I'm game for almost anything.

Thanks.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:01:55PM -0400, David Boyd
wrote:
> I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise
> SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives.
> 
> The boot from CD keeps repeating the following (error) messages: (I'm
> retyping here)
>
> {snip -- for dmesg errors, see URL below}
You're the second person to report this problem recently.  The other
person (see below) reported the same thing, also using a PATA
controller, and also using Seagate disks (though different models).

We now have two reproducible test cases where users are seeing continual
errors from the controller when attempting to set the transfer mode,
enable read and write caching, and SET_MULTI.  The only similarity so
far is that they're both PATA users.

In Kristian's case, his disks were in a usable state, but we ultimately
determine the Silicon Image controller might be responsible for what he
was seeing (the SMART errors we saw in his logs could've been from any
time in the past; he saw errors on multiple disks, and not all of those
disks shown SMART log errors)... while David's not using a Silicon Image
controller at all.

Kristian's setup:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046023.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046027.html

Silicon Image 0680 ATA100 (problem was also seen on Promise PDC20270)
ad4: <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAF> at ata2-master PIO4
ad5: <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAF> at ata2-slave  PIO4
ad6: <Seagate ST3750640A 3.AAE> at ata3-master PIO4
ad7: <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAD> at ata3-slave  PIO4

David's setup (what we know so far):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046140.html

Promise SX4060
ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata2-master PIO4
ad8: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120814A 3.AAJ> at ata4-master PIO4

Soren/Andrey, can either of you comment on this?  If at all possible, it
would be good to get this hammered out before 7.1-RELEASE is tagged.

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David Boyd wrote:
> I am attempting to install 7.1-BETA2 (from CD) onto a PC with a Promise
> SX4060 RAID controller and two Seagate 120GB ATA disk drives.
Did you try to select "Safe mode" in boot menu or boot with ACPI
disabled?
Can you boot your system in verbose mode and show dmesg.boot?

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov