Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Finally settled on a Radeon x1950 I second that. PCIe X1950Pro with 256Mb RAM is best card price/{performance, stability} - wise you can get right now. -- ./lxnt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-09 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Roman Kurakin wrote: By the way, is there any chance to get RAID5 working with this controller? Software only. -- ./lxnt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-03 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > Rather than the marginal HW part, it seems, for me, closely related to > MB/BIOS (as well (Alexander apperently has about the same setup as I > have for this test)): > [...] > > I vaguely remember from another PR that the Promise card does > something with PCI-bursti

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > definitely an improvement, but not sufficient (for my setup ) : > > amd64-releng_6 on an ASUS A8V UP (box ran rock-stable > for years i386-releng_5 with same hardware apart TX4 and > drives) > > from dmesg : > Setup is identical to mine, except for the drives. http://l

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Søren Schmidt wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: Good catch! However from my quick glimpse at the Promise sources the limit seems to be 32 Dwords ie 32*4 = 128bytes. Please see driver named 4_sataii150-300_linux2.6-src_x86-64_v1.01.0.23 I'll investigate further and ask Promise for the gory details

Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-01 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Hello. I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. Bug description: SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in a dma transfer) is larger than 164 bytes. This was found while analysing vendor-supplied linux driver.