SiI 3114 woes

[Mars G. Miro]

On 9/9/05, Jon Dama <jd at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Yes, but only in a configuration <=3GB.  But I thought those problems were
> ironed out?  I've been looking to switch that machine back to
> FreeBSD/amd64 but haven't had a chance yet.  Would love to know if there
> are issues ahead.
> 


This machine only has 2G of RAM. See my previous post on the full dmesg.

Thanks.

> -Jon
> 
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Mars G. Miro wrote:
> 
> > Yo list/Soren!
> >
> >  Has anybody successfully installed FreeBSD on the dual-Opteron TYAN
> > ThunderK8W S2885 ( http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w.html )
> >  using the onboard SiI 3114 SATA controller? This mobo is supposedly
> > supported:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80857
> >
> >  But I have never been able to successfully install
> > FreeBSD({5.3/5.4/6.0Beta3/4} amd64/i386) on it, using SATA.
> >
> > In my last attempt at installing 6.0Beta4 AMD64 on it, I get:
> >
> >  ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
> > LBA=105819039
> >  g_vfs_done():ad4s1e[WRITE(offset=23695114240, length=2048)]error = 5
> >
> >   at the debugging console
> >
> >  and
> >
> >  panic:bundirty: buffer 0xffffffff9a7faff0 still on queue 1
> >  cpuid = 0
> >  KDB: enter: panic
> >  [ thread pid 3 tid 100021 ]
> >  Stopped at         kdb_enter+0x2f: nop
> >  db> trace
> >  Tracing pid 3 tid 100021 td 0xffffff007ba14be0
> >  kdb_enter() at kdb_enter+0x2f
> >  panic() at panic+0x249
> >  bundirty() at bundirty+0x128
> >  brelse() at brelse+0x831
> >  bufdone() at bufdone+0x225
> >  ffs_backgroundwritedone() at ffs_backgroundwritedone+0xa7
> >  bufdone() at bufdone+0x2ad
> >  g_vfs_done() at g_gvfs_done+0x63
> >  g_io_schedule_up() at g_io_schedule_up+0xd4
> >  g_up_procbody() at g_up_procbody+0x7a
> >  fork_exit() at fork_exit+0xbb
> >  fork_trampoline() at fork_tramploine+0xe
> >  --- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xffffffffb2160d00, rbp = 0 ---
> >  db>
> >
> >  Some months ago, I did successfully install FreeBSD 5.4/amd64 on it,
> > using PATA IDE drives, and no problems whatsoever, so I think this has
> > something to do w/ the SiI 3114 driver.
> >
> >  Any help is much appreciated.
> >
> >  I do apologize for cross-posting but this concerns -stable and -amd64.
> >
> >  Thanks!
> >
> >
> > cheers
> > mars
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> 


cheers
mars