Re: URGENT for 5.4-R: ATA meister, read this now - 64/32 bits error found - Trouble with ataraid

2005-04-28 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: I think I may have found the problem!!! Looking at the source code for arstrategy, we can find this: - static void arstrategy(struct bio *bp) { struct ar_softc *rdp = bp->bio_disk->d_drv1; int blkno, count, chunk, lba, lbs, tmplba;

Re: SATA NCQ by software?

2005-04-13 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: Hi, To use the advantages of SATA NCQ, do I have to use a specific controller, or is this only a software matter? Both actually, and a disk that supports it as well. I'm working on getting the ATA driver to handle NCQ (and the older TCQ for that matter). -- -Sør

Re: Nvidia nforce2 sata controller

2005-04-09 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Lucas Holt wrote: I have a MSI k7n2 delta2 lsr motherboard (msicomputer.com). Odd as it sounds, it has a nvidia sata controller. From a post on current in december, I learned it uses the pata controller and another chip in front of it. The sata controller is not detected by 5-STABLE and i'd

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi hackers, could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD ? I have plans to buy a machine which motherboard has ICH6 SATA RAID integrated and i want to know whether i will be able to run FreeBSD on it. The hardware part is fu

Re: ATA security commands, bug in atacontrol

2005-04-03 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
ALeine wrote: Recent c't magazine article "At Your Disservice - How ATA security functions jeopardize your data", which you can find at the URL below, warns about the dangers of ATA security commands. Specifically, a malicious attacker with sufficient access could render a disk useless to the legit

Re: burndvd instead of growisofs?

2005-03-31 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Eric Anderson wrote: Is anyone working on a 'burndvd'? I have to use growisofs to burn dvd's in FreeBSD, which means I need a port, so the base system doesn't burn dvd's. It's no crisis, but wouldn't it be nice if FreeBSD could burn dvd's without a port, without atapicam, etc? Anyway, I gues

Re: DMA TIMEOUT PROBLEM

2005-03-24 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
haad wrote: Hi, This is pretty basic question which has been allready discused here but i can't find answer .On my workstation i use linux and freebsd linux works fine without any errors but freebsd shhows numerous errors and i don't know what to do. I test freebsd 5.2.1-released ,5.3 released t

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disks as RAID

2005-02-17 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Amandeep Pannu wrote: Hi all, I have this Supermicro MB P4SCI and I am using the onboard SATA controllers and making a RAID of two Seagate 80Gb SATA drives but when I try to install FreeBSD 4.11 it doesnt see the drives configured as RAID. Any ideas as if this is supported or not. If I try single d

Re: ATA_IDENTIFY timed out on ASUS P4VP-MX

2005-02-07 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Luiz Otavio Souza wrote: I tried the patch, and just get a different warning. i'm attaching two dmesg, one with 5.3-RELEASE (with some extra debug info) and one for ATA-mIII. Hmm, seems interrupt arent getting through, not much I can do about that one. Maybe -current can help as its interrupt rou

Re: ATA_IDENTIFY timed out on ASUS P4VP-MX

2005-02-06 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Luiz Otavio Souza wrote: Recently one of my clients get a new (very cheap) P4VP-MX wich uses a VIA VT8235 Southbridge. This machine is not detecting (identify) ATA disk under 5.3. I have tested with 5.3-STABLE and 5.3-RELEASE, with 4.X it works. I tried with different disks and with CDROM, but no

Re: Problem with FastTrak S150 SX4-M

2005-01-28 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Dave Myron wrote: It's not red but it is the PRI_RAID IDE connector. I have the controller set to IDE in the BIOS so it should act just as any other IDE controller (according to the manual and many other sources). I have two hard drives on the primary IDE (not on the controller) and a CD drive on t

Re: ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

2005-01-28 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
First thanks to all those that responded to this inquiry, it has given me a pointer to how wanted this is. Chris Faulhaber wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:36:52PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote: Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in p

ATAPI CD changers anybody ?

2005-01-24 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Seems I lost my lonely ATAPI CDROM with built in changer to the eternal HW scrapyards, let it rest in peace :) Finding a new one seems difficult so I thought I'd ask around how many still has one of these ? I ask because the support code for those seem to have suffered bitrot to the degree tha

Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

2005-01-19 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
yoke an wrote: >Could you try 5.3? I think 4.8 does not support SATA well, if at all. On >contrary, I am using SATA on 5.3 without problems, the last time I tried 4.10 >all I got was unknown disk or something like this. >Milan Thanks. I knew 5.3 is work very well. But due to my applic

Re: ata_catch_inflight causes boot freeze

2005-01-16 Thread ¸ren Schmidt
Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 16.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kris Maglione: On my laptop, while the call to ata_catch_inflight is in dev/ata/ata-all.c, my laptop freezes at boot, after detecting acd0 and doing GEOM: Configure for ad0. I don't mind commenting out the line in my builds, but others shouldn