ordering of ports on Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller

[Rick C. Petty]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:07:57PM +0200, Michal Mertl wrote:
> Rick C. Petty wrote:
> > What determines the probing order of the ports/channels on the PDC40718
> > (Promise TX4 SATA300 controller)?  The SATA ports are labeled "Port 1"
> > through "Port 4".  I have a total of four of these cards, and all of
> > them repeatably probe out of order:
> > 
> > label	reported in FreeBSD
> > ------	-------------------
> > Port 1	<ATA channel 3>
> > Port 2	<ATA channel 1>
> > Port 3	<ATA channel 0>
> > Port 4	<ATA channel 2>
> > 
> > Has anyone else noticed this with these cards?  What can I do to fix it?
> > I'm running both 6.0-RELEASE and RELENG_6_1 as of 2006-May-07.
> 
> I see that too but I don't care as long as it works :-).

Well that's a problem too.  I'm not having good luck with this controller
on either 6.0 or 6.1 unless I turn both ACPI and PREEMPTION off, and even
then sometimes gvinum's raid5 makes the problem even worse...

-- Rick C. Petty