Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot of 9.2-RELEASE. I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new ASRock motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I tried at first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a bit about the new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have been "out of it" in terms of this list and other going's on for about a year due to workload), but upon booting I was getting "timeout" errors ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0 ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 serr 00000000 cmd 0004df17 to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured I would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been spotted and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot and tried to install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first screen of the install because of these messages: ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected) uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these errors about 1 per second. So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue with this hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something has zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot because I can't even get through the install program. :(. Same hardware, same everything. I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result. The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, I'm wondering generically are people having problems with SSD's in FreeBSD? In this hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA disk yet. But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get through install on this H/W where 9.1 could......... -Jr
Hi John, On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:45:29PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:> Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot > of 9.2-RELEASE. > > I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a > brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new > ASRock motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I > tried at first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a > bit about the new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have > been "out of it" in terms of this list and other going's on for > about a year due to workload), but upon booting I was getting > "timeout" errors > > ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0 > ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 > serr 00000000 cmd 0004df17 > > to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured > I would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been > spotted and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot > and tried to install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first > screen of the install because of these messages: > > ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected) > uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device > > and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these > errors about 1 per second. > > So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue with > this hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something > has zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot > because I can't even get through the install program. :(. Same > hardware, same everything. > > I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result. > > The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to > install 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices > after I hit 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, > I'm wondering generically are people having problems with SSD's in > FreeBSD? In this hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA > disk yet. > > But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get > through install on this H/W where 9.1 could......... >Do you have a SATA drive you can try with this hardware? It would be useful to know if that works, or same errors, etc. Glen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20130717/00542420/attachment.sig>
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, John Reynolds wrote:> The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install > 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit 'W' in > the disk label editor to commit my changes.Somewhere, there is a FAQ or note that you should not press "W" in the installer. But a quick check did not find where that was.> So, I'm wondering generically are people having problems with SSD's in > FreeBSD? In this hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA > disk yet.I use SSDs without problems on 9.2-STABLE amd64, but all on motherboard controllers. The problems you're seeing sound like a controller problem. For reference: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 7:45 PM, John Reynolds <johnjen at reynoldsnet.org>wrote:> to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured I > would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been spotted and > fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot and tried to install > it. However, I couldn't even get past the first screen of the install > because of these messages: > > ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected) > uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device > > and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these > errors about 1 per second. >Try toggling usb compatibility mode in the bios. -- Adam Vande More
Is the SSD running at 6Gbps? If so have you tried limiting the speed
to 3Gbps?
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Reynolds" <johnjen at reynoldsnet.org>
To: <stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 1:45 AM
Subject: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE
> Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot of
> 9.2-RELEASE.
>
> I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a
> brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new ASRock
> motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I tried at
> first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a bit about the
> new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have been
"out of it"
> in terms of this list and other going's on for about a year due to
> workload), but upon booting I was getting "timeout" errors
>
> ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0
> ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 serr
> 00000000 cmd 0004df17
>
> to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured I
> would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been spotted
> and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot and tried to
> install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first screen of the
> install because of these messages:
>
> ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected)
> uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device
>
> and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these
> errors about 1 per second.
>
> So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue
with this
> hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something has
> zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot because I
> can't even get through the install program. :(. Same hardware, same
> everything.
>
> I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result.
>
> The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install
> 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit
> 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, I'm
wondering
> generically are people having problems with SSD's in FreeBSD? In this
> hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA disk yet.
>
> But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get
> through install on this H/W where 9.1 could.........
>
> -Jr
>
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