Re: Promise ATA133 controller

2003-01-18 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Travis L. Leuthauser wrote: > Is anyone currently working on support for the Promise PDC20275 FastTrack TX > EIDE Controller, which comes on the AOpen AX4B Pro-533 for ATA133? If so, > is there an ETA for support? Should be supported already... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: Promise ATA133 controller

2003-01-18 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Travis L. Leuthauser wrote: > none3@pci2:14:0:class=0x018085 card=0x1275105a chip=0x1275105a > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Promise Technology Inc' > device = 'PDC20275 FastTrack TX EIDE Controller' > class= mass storage > > Running 4.7 Stable as of today arou

Request for info from SiS chipset owners

2003-02-01 Thread Soeren Schmidt
I'm currently in the midst of an ATA chipset support mega rewrite/update, and the last item on the list is SiS support. That where _you_ come into the picture, I need a pciconf -l from your SiS based system! Just reply to this message with the output from pciconf -l and you have helped me sort o

SiS pciconf's request ending :)

2003-02-06 Thread Soeren Schmidt
Thanks to all those that replied with pciconf output from various SiS chipsets (and thanks to those that sent from other systems as well :) ). I now have a significant amount of data to use for the SiS chipset support, and am working on it over the next days.. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: booting from Promise tx2000: FIXED

2003-02-25 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > while waiting for Soeren Schmidt to get the Promise SX4000 driver done! > > I was under the impression that the SX4000 and SX6000 were already > supported? I know that phk has an SX6000

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Pete wrote: > Hello, > > I've been posting about this since the beginning on the year. A few > times on freebsd-questions, once on freebsd-hackers, and submitted a PR > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=48165). I have never found > a solution beyond replacing FreeBSD with Linu

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-10 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> atacontrol create mirror ad6 ad7 > > This is starting to _really_ confuse me. Does FreeBSD have two software > > RAID systems? > > Yes (vinum and raidframe) And ccd :) > >Is there something built into the

Re: 3 IDE devices on Promise card + FreeBSD == not possible?

2003-03-11 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Pete wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > No, thats not the case, the ATA driver has a built in RAID engine > > to use with Promise and HighPoint controllers. The reason it is > > like this is that it is nessesary to read the RAID config off the > > disks in a vendor s

Re: Anyone useing ATI All-in-wonder cards with xawtv ?

2003-04-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 09), Soeren Schmidt said: > > And have it working ? > > > > I've got it so far (using the GATOS ATI.2 X driver) that I get sound > > but only a black picture. Anyhow tuner setup and channel programming > >

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Hi all. > > Per the subject, how much work will it be? > > For giggles, I grabbed the earliest burncd from CVS that supports VCD, > saved off my /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd, then: > # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd > # make all > The build puked on a few CDR* definit

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Doing a backport to 4.5 will include changes to the ATA driver in the > > kernel as well as to burncd, and is not a trivial matter... > > I feared as much. Would this be the ATAPICAM (?) stuff done for 4.6? > OTOH, I backported the ICH sound support to 4.3; I'm no

Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge?

2003-06-17 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Rich Morin wrote: > I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, as: > >478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz >512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.) >SiS962(L) Southbridge > > I then found that I couldn't boot the (FreeBSD 4.7) system, getting: > >ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 resetting >

Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds.

2003-07-31 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Buckie wrote: > Hello hackers! > > I hope someone can help me with this since you know the internals of > FreeBSD much more than me. Hope it doesn't take much time. > > The sort of problem I'm having is this: after installing a new Ultra > ATA card (it's based on Silicon Image 0680 chip

Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds.

2003-07-31 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Buckie wrote: > I ran a dd: > dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/dev/zero ibs=8192 > ...and cancelled it after some amount of time: > 2321+0 records in > 37136+0 records out > 19013632 bytes transferred in 27.876118 secs (682076 bytes/sec) > > I don't use static2 ata device numbering hence Maxtor is assi

Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds.

2003-07-31 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Kenneth Culver wrote: > > What I find fascinating is that Maxtor's site never actually tells you > > the true throughput of that disk anywhere. > > http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/desktop/diamondmax_plus_9/ > > Almost none of the hard disk manufacturers do. In fact I've never seen >

Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds.

2003-07-31 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > Guess I just didn't look hard enough or in the right place. I only spent a > minute or 2 on it, but yeah ATA drives don't tell you that sort of thing, > they say stuff like "ATA133 for a max transfer rate of 133 MB/sec *" then > at the bottom the * says somethin

Re: Ultra ATA card doesn't seem to provide Ultra speeds. - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Buckie wrote: > Hello folks. > Some of you may remember my trouble with SI0680-based ULTRADMA ATA > controller card. Well, the problem was obvivously the faulty card. > After replacing it works fine. > > I don't know what magic Soeren has put in the SI driver, but unlike > Windows it neve

Re: Why is ATAPI DMA disabled by default ?

2003-08-14 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Maxim Konovalov wrote: > > > I use 5.1-current and have found that by default FreeBSD disables ATAPI's > > support for DMA transfers and thus uses CPU hungry PIO modes. > > It even makes sysctl used to change this read-only. > > I had changed the default value of atapi_dma to 1 in dev/ata

Re: process hang in atprq state

2002-05-29 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Richard Nyberg wrote: > Hi there. > I seem to have some problems with my cd read program. > > I've attached a small prototype program that for some reason hangs > in atprq, even though I use a timeout of 5 seconds. The program reads > a cd in raw format using the MMC READ_CD command. It

Re: process hang in atprq state

2002-05-29 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Soeren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Richard Nyberg wrote: > > Hi there. > > I seem to have some problems with my cd read program. > > > > I've attached a small prototype program that for some reason hangs > > in atprq, even though I use a timeout of 5

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > One of my FreeBSD development boxes had a hernia last week when it lost > power while writing to disk. The drive wrote out garbage to a track. > > I want to reformat the drive, (low level) but the bios doesn't have any > support to do this (In the past That is ho

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

2002-08-22 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi all, > > I suspect all the SIG4 and SIG11 problems we see are due > memory corruption in CURRENT. > > The file is correct after a reboot, so the corruption was limited to the > > copy cached in RAM. > > Thats memory corruption. I'm also not able anymore

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

2002-08-22 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Martin Blapp wrote: > Hi Soeren, > > > However, this kind of problem in most cases spells bad HW to me, > > ie subspec RAM, poor powersupply, badly cooled CPU, overclocking etc etc... > > That's what I thought too. I have now three different systems which show > all this: > > 1) PIV 1,

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

2002-08-22 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > Martin Blapp wrote: > > > options DISABLE_PSE > > > options DISABLE_PG_G > > > > Just added them. I'll now build 20 buildworlds with those enabled. > > Let the list know if it does anything. If Soren could also test, > that would give a sample size.

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

2002-08-22 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Mark Santcroos wrote: > Hi, > > Can you revert back to the system compiler and also compile your kernel > with this options and do some buildworlds again? I already use the system compiler... > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:41:13PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > >

Re: USB->ATA devices

2002-08-27 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > If you're interested, I wrote a functional but incomplete driver > > for a similar device, the Prolific Technology PL2307 bridge. I just > > This is good stuff. > > The Onspec expects a command packet containing the ATA register contents > in the order they ap

Re: USB->ATA devices

2002-08-27 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Soeren Schmidt writes: > >It should be possible to hide the USB stuff under the ATA_* macroes > >or even just under bus_space_*. > >I need a bit more concrete details on how to call into the USB > >code,

Re: READ_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST at very end of CD

2002-09-24 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Robert Watson wrote: > Yeah, it's odd actually. I burnt myself a CD this morning using my Mac OS > X box, and it appeared to be fine on an older -CURRENT box and on the Mac. > Stuck it in my far-more-recent -CURRENT box and it died horribly. Or at > least, it gave the same error you're

Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?

2002-09-26 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > support. I asked for a cross update program to get IBM firmware; they > had none. They wrote one :-), i got it and now my drive does tagged > command queueing. Well, I've always liked IBM's as well, anyhow do you still have the update program ? I'd like to ad

Re: CMD Tech. PCI-0680 Driver

2002-10-05 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems William M. Grim wrote: > Anyway, I'm looking to update the ATA driver so that my new ATA/133 card > with a Silicon Images' PCI-0680 chipset works. I bought the card from > CMD Technologies. Apparently, ata/33 on up to ata/100 is supported for > their line of cards according to the 4.6.2

Re: Sil 0648/0649/0680 supporting DMA for ATAPI?

2002-10-10 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Oct 05 at 15:05, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > > > Too late, I've already added support for the Sil 0680 chip in both > > -current and -stable. BTW it was not supported before that (not even > > Does any of the Sil 0648/0649/0680

Re: Sil vs. SiI

2002-10-18 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Oct 11 at 09:01, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > > > The Sil 680 does support ATAPI DMA, I'll need to dig out the older > > I have an Enmic installed which reports > atapci1: port [...] > > Is this reported literally by the co

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Juli Mallett wrote: > > Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, > > and an ISO image has been built from sources. > > I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD at all. Where do you live ? I'm sure we can find someone with a CD burner near you wi

Re: Sil 0648/0649/0680 supporting DMA for ATAPI?

2002-10-11 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Oct 11 at 09:01, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > > > The Sil 680 does support ATAPI DMA, I'll need to dig out the older > > Would this also cover Dawicontrol Ultra DMA 133 RAID which is > claimed to be built upon SiI 0680? Yes, if its

Re: Show me the light

2002-10-27 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Ronald G Minnich wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As far as I remember, there is open collector output > > on parallel port, so your wish impossible %-) > > oops, I forgot that little deal. Yup, you need a pullup. Only the control signals are OC, the databits

Re: ATAPI vs ATA disk

2002-11-18 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Eduard Martinescu wrote: > > I am trying to port the 'smartmontools' package from sourceforge.net to > FreeBSD. However, I am running into some issues. I need to be able to > send SMART commands (and read responses) to ATA disk drives. At first > glance, it looked like the generic ATAP

Re: burncd raw mode

2002-12-17 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a 2352-byte block mode1 CD image, and wish to burn this with burncd. > I know I can use bin2iso or bchunk to decode it, but I'd rather keep the > block metadata intact from the file itself instead of having the > burner/driver(?) reconstruct it

Re: burncd raw mode

2002-12-17 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Stijn Hoop wrote: > > Not as is, but it could be done, however there is absolutly no point > > in doing it, *unless* its to make an exact copy of a CD that is > > copyprotected in one of the usual ways. > > OK, but what if it is? Tools, not policy? I didn't put any policy in there you ju

Re: ATA RAID performance

2003-01-02 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: > Greetings, > > I have tried using both atacontrol and ccdconfig to create stripes and > mirrors of various sizes, and have found that in all cases, read performance > *decreased*. Uhm, what kind of disks, stripesize etc are you using, without that info noone can te

Re: pst: timeout mfa=0x00328210 cmd=WRITE

2003-01-07 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Abel Alejandro wrote: > Hello, I am getting this error like 5 or 10 times > then my box crashes. I have tried both 4.7-RC and > 5.0-RC2 and both crash after having displayed this > message a few times. It shouldn't crash since the requests are retried and then usually succeeds, however I