On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:03:46AM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
> On 5/23/05, Richard D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > The interrupt levels change a bit but still stay above 80% :(
> > 
> > I think my motherboard is not fully supported.
> 
> You think correctly.  Specifically, the IDE controller in the ATI
> chipset is not supported, so OpenBSD is falling back to a generic IDE
> driver, which is functional, but lacks DMA transfers, which means your
> transfer rate is limited to about 3MB/sec and CPU usage is very high,
> as you have seen.
> 
> These are the relevant sections of your dmesg log.  For a supported
> IDE controller, it would note that DMA transfers were in use, rather
> than "16-sector PIO".
> ====
> > dmesg:
> > pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x437a
> > rev 0x00: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 configured to native-PCI,
> > channel 1 configured to native-PCI
> > pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt
> > pciide0: channel 0 ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?)
> > pciide0: channel 1 ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?)
> > pciide1 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4379
> > rev 0x00: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 configured to native-PCI,
> > channel 1 configured to native-PCI
> > pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
> > pciide1: channel 0 ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?)
> > pciide1: channel 1 ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?)
> > pciide2 at pci0 dev 20 function 1 vendor "ATI", unknown product 0x4376
> > rev 0x00: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 configured to compatibility,
> > channel 1 configured to compatibility
> > wd0 at pciide2 channel 0 drive 0: <ST380011A>
> > wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors
> > wd1 at pciide2 channel 0 drive 1: <WDC WD205AA>
> > wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 19569MB, 40079088 sectors
> > atapiscsi0 at pciide2 channel 1 drive 0
> > scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
> > cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <ATAPI, DVD DD 2X16X4X16, G7L9> SCSI0
> > 5/cdrom removable
> ====
> 
> Your best solution at this point (assuming you continue using the same
> motherboard) would be to get a PCI IDE card (such as Promise Ultra
> 100, etc.), which can be found for about $25 at online vendors, and
> will get you proper DMA transfers.
> 
> 
> -Andrew

Or he could try -current which has support for the ATI re-badged Silicon
Image SATA controllers. Everything else on the board is supported. Not
having pcidevs strings is purely cosmetic but that's been resolved in
-current too.

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