Problems with 4.10 Release and "supported" hardware

[Vinod Kashyap]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Soule [mailto:jsoule at webcrossing.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:22 PM
> > To: Vinod Kashyap
> > Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Problems with 4.10 Release and "supported" hardware
> > 
> > 
> > No other controllers.
> > The built in SATA controller is turned off in the bios.
> > The bios sees the controller, and I am able to access and 
> > configure the 
> > controller at boot.
> > No errors are reported and I am able to delete/create the 
> RAID Array 
> > with no problems.
> > I waited more then a few minutes (Went to get coffee when 
> the 'Kernel 
> > Configuration Menu' appeared.)
> > Heck, I even back revved the motherboard bios to the same 
> > version as a 
> > server that is working.
> > 
> > The only difference is some changes 3ware made to the latest 9000 
> > series card (BBU added and firmware changed to support BBU Battery 
> > Backup Unit)  I suspect that their changes broke the twa 
> > driver but am 
> > not slick enough to get any further with this :-(
> > 
> 
> I don't think the twa driver is even in the picture here.  Do you
> see any message printed by twa at boot time?  It looks to me like
> the FreeBSD PCI subsystem does not even detect any PCI controllers
> for twa to claim.  When this happened, we attached a PCI analyzer
> and saw that there was almost on activity on any of the PCI busses.
> 
I meant there was almost NO activity on any of the PCI busses, sorry...


> Can you plug-in any other PCI controller and see if gets detected?
> 
> 
> > My vender is building another box with a different Supermicro 
> > Motherboard that does work, (Already verified), but the bus 
> speed is 
> > slower so it is not the best solution by a long shot...
> > 
> > On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> > 
> > > Do you see PCI controllers other than 3ware?  Do you
> > > see them (other PCI controllers) if the 3ware controller
> > > is not plugged in?  Does the motherboard BIOS detect
> > > the 3ware controller?  i.e., do you see messages from
> > > the 3ware BIOS at startup?  For how much time did you
> > > wait at the 'Kernel Configuration Menu'?  You might want
> > > to try waiting longer...
> > >
> > > One other thing I have observed is that, if there are
> > > any degraded units attached to 3ware, the 3ware BIOS
> > > waits for 30 seconds rather than the usual 5 seconds,
> > > and when this happens, _all_ PCI controllers are seen!
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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