amd64/135040: FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2

[Ralf Folkerts]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/135040; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ralf Folkerts <ralf.folkerts at gmx.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, ralf.folkerts at gmx.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/135040: FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on
 SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:56:55 +0200

 Hi Alexander and John,
 
 the Systems seems to work OK now! Thanks for the fast responses!
 
 The hw.physmem works 1a; put it into loader.conf (after entering manual 
 for the first boot) and it really works fine.
 
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 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat May 23 17:58:51 CEST 2009
     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5050e (2593.00-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x60fb2  Stepping = 2
   
 Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
   Features2=0x2001<SSE3,CX16>
   AMD Features=0xea500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
   AMD Features2=0x11f<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,Prefetch>
   TSC: P-state invariant
   Cores per package: 2
 usable memory = 3475714048 (3314 MB)
 avail memory  = 3353473024 (3198 MB)
 
 
 I finished two buildworld/buildkernel/installworld/installkernel now, 
 running cvsup of ports and also some other tasks in parallel - no 
 Problem. Now I put my "normal" Disk back in and will try a portupgrade.
 
 Well, it does work OK for me now (it seems). However, is there a chance 
 to get this problem circumvented (in case its a Hardware-Bug) or solved 
 (in case there is something not working OK in a driver) or maybe even 
 both? If so, could I help? How?
 
 Cheers,
 _ralf_