Change in Promise controllers

[Mark Kirkwood]

Christian Baer wrote:
> Good morning, everyone!
> 
> There seems to have been some changes made concerning the supported
> Promise controllers.
> 
> I have a SATA TX2Plus (PDC20775 chip). This is a sort of hybrid for SATA
> and PATA - it can run two drives of both.
> 
> Until today I got this running with a sort of hack I found here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg00553.html
> 
> That worked fine until today. Now the PDC40775 (which is supposed to be
> the same device if you believe google) has the same ID and the
> controller is identified as such. The result is this (in dmesg):
> 
> ad8: req=0xc398a000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !!
> 
> Along with a crash of a process that couldn't even be stopped by a
> kill -9!
> 
> Can someone tell me how to fix this?
> 

Not of much help to you I'm afraid :-( , but a couple of us see a very 
similar error with the SX4060 (PDC20621) - same chip as the SX4000 which 
works perfectly for Søren, so I'll be very interested to find out what 
is going on with this!

Cheers

Mark