Re: (no subject)

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > A colleague of mine has the same disks in a new Nvidia Atom 330 > system and he told me that he reaches around 70MB/sec write speed > with a single large file on a single disk running linux 2.6. > > I hooked the disk up to my client: > > FreeBSD 7.2-STAB

Re: PATA disks/DVD not detected on ATI IXP 700 - cannot boot (dmesg attached)

2009-09-30 Thread Alexander Motin
Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Monday 28 September 2009 02:21 pm, Alexander Motin wrote: >> PS: I have tried to disable all that ATI-specific code and found >> that both legacy PCI ATA and AHCI drivers looks like working fine >> with IXP700. Do we really need AHCI forcing for IXP700? > > It enables all s

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Daniel O'Connor writes: In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked fine. I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because they are kinda cheap and another system I intend to use with SATA harddisks has no SATA on-board. But then I searched throug

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-09-30 Thread Rudy
Rudy wrote: > I am having watchdog timeout issues with my Intel 82573 Pro/1000 ... > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2008-May/018075.html > > link to dcgdis.zip didn't work. Do you have a copy? > Thanks, Jack. Got the file and flashed -- no upgrade needed. So, while the router

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it worked > > fine. > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because they are > kinda cheap and another system I intend to

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Robert Noland writes: On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with later (when I'm back home ;)) I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing relative to other implementations. So ther

PCI write oddity

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I have a custom device driver for a PCI RS485 card - it has a 16550 and a PLX PCI bridge on it and I recently found something quite odd. We used to run the link at 9600 but with some more recent modules we've decided to up it to 115200, so I changed the baud rate easily enough.. However wh

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 13:17 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Robert Noland writes: > > > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > >> I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with later > >> (when I'm back home ;)) > > > > I would also be curious how that ahc

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-09-30 Thread Stefan Krueger
In muc.lists.freebsd.stable, you wrote: > Rudy wrote: >> I am having watchdog timeout issues with my Intel 82573 Pro/1000 ... >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2008-May/018075.html >> >> link to dcgdis.zip didn't work. Do you have a copy? >> > > Thanks, Jack. Got the file and f

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE boot freeze

2009-09-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/09/2009 21:50 kama said the following: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> Serial console and remote debugging perhaps? > > ILO is serial console or rather console++, since you can even see the > whole bootup sequence, change bios. But thats if you connect through their > webint

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:56:51 -0500 Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it > > > worked fine. > > > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:10 AM 9/30/2009, Bruce Cran wrote: I ran the tiobench test on -CURRENT a few days ago and the ahci driver showed an improvement in latency over the ata driver; I didn't test transfer rates though. I was running the AHCI driver on the freebsd-current tinderbox for 3 weeks with very good

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE boot freeze

2009-09-30 Thread kama
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 29/09/2009 21:50 kama said the following: > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > >> Serial console and remote debugging perhaps? > > > > ILO is serial console or rather console++, since you can even see the > > whole bootup sequence, chan

Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE boot freeze

2009-09-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/09/2009 16:21 kama said the following: > > It boot occationally. It does not seem to matter if I include the acpi > device into the kernel or not. > > I get this message in an verbose boot: > KLD file acpi.ko - could not finalize loading Do you get this message in all cases? That is, every

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-09-30 Thread Rudy (bulk)
Stefan Krueger wrote: In muc.lists.freebsd.stable, you wrote: Rudy wrote: I am having watchdog timeout issues with my Intel 82573 Pro/1000 ... http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2008-May/018075.html link to dcgdis.zip didn't work. Do you have a copy? Thanks, Jac

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Robert Noland wrote: > I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing > relative to other implementations. I tried 8.0-RC1-i386.iso but the ahci driver didn't picked up my promise nor my VIA controller. So all the numbers now for the "old" ata driver. CPU: AMD Athlon(tm

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/09/2009 19:47 Oliver Lehmann said the following: > Robert Noland wrote: > >> I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is performing >> relative to other implementations. > > I tried 8.0-RC1-i386.iso but the ahci driver didn't picked up my promise > nor my VIA controller. S

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Andriy Gapon wrote: > What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? > AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - tried both so I think AHCI is just not supported on my K8T800Pro chipset for the SATA controller. -- Oliver Lehmann h

Re: Laggy X11 after updating to 8.0-RC1

2009-09-30 Thread Scott Lambert
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:55:44PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote: > I'm seeing something similar to OP, apparent keyboard buffer delays, but > maybe not exactly. When I click from one xterm to another, it may be > 1 - 30 seconds before my key entries show. Firefox seems to have less > delay after cl

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? > > AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? > > Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - > tried both so I think AHCI is just not suppo

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-09-30 Thread Rudy
Rudy wrote: Rudy wrote: I am having watchdog timeout issues Oh, here is some more info from 'pciconf -lcv'. I offloaded half the traffic from em0 to em5 and there has only been one watchdog timeout today (on em5) vs. 10 watchdog timeouts yesterday. We do streaming out of our network and th

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >>> What mode do you have set for your controllers in BIOS? >>> AHCI or IDE/Legacy/etc? >> Yeah I read about this too but my BIOS offers only "RAID" and "SATA" - >> tried both so I think

Re: em0 watchdog timeouts

2009-09-30 Thread Jack Vogel
Increase the size of your TX ring, meaning the number of TX descriptors. You said this is a quad port card, what size PCI E slot are you in? On some motherboards slot connectors might suggest its of a certain size but its not really wired fully. If you are not in a x8 lane slot move it to one. Wh

8.0 RC1 cd boot problem

2009-09-30 Thread grarpamp
I did make release NOPORTS, NODOC, of and on the same RELENG_8, and burnt the now nicely CD sized dvd1 image onto a CDR. 515411968 bytes RELENG_8_20090928-i386-dvd1.iso Using both the dvd and cd drives, the MD5 and SHA256 match. I can mount the iso and all is fine. Booting it looks normal up until

Re: PATA disks/DVD not detected on ATI IXP 700 - cannot boot (dmesg attached)

2009-09-30 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 03:19 am, Alexander Motin wrote: > Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Monday 28 September 2009 02:21 pm, Alexander Motin wrote: > >> PS: I have tried to disable all that ATI-specific code and found > >> that both legacy PCI ATA and AHCI drivers looks like working > >> fine wit