Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset?

Tue Nov 27 14:29:10 PST 2007

--- Søren Schmidt <sos at deepcore.dk> wrote:

> Barney Cordoba wrote:
> > Søren Schmidt wrote:
> >> This server has been running -current all the
> time
> >> with about biweekly 
> >> updates, so it has made the transition all the
> way
> >> from about 6.1 to 
> >> todays current without problems.
> >>     
> >>> Something happened between 6.2 and 7.0, as we
> were
> >>> able to run 6.2 on these systems.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Looks like a pattern, something outside of ATA
> also
> >> caused HW issues on 
> >> some Promise controllers to appear in this
> period.
> >> Just checked and nothing in ATA changed in
> regards
> >> to either the HT1000 
> >> or the Promise HW, its the same support code
> thats
> >> been there all the time.
> >> It could be a sideeffect of now having more fine
> >> grained locking etc, 
> >> that makes these problems show up, your guess is
> as
> >> good as mine.
> >>
> >> Again, the sticky point is that if I cant
> reproduce
> >> a problem here its 
> >> very hard to work on it, if not just plain
> >> impossible...
> >>     
> >
> > A sticky point on this end is that it will cost
> more
> > to ship you a system than the cost of the product;
> you
> > being in Europe and the US dollar sucking in
> general.
> > I'm also not going to be able to get authorization
> to
> > ship overseas. 
> >
> >   
> Maybe I can get the HW over here, paypal can be used
> to transfer the 
> funds in that case...
> > Could you send me the config file you're using on
> your
> > 7.0 system with the H8SSL MB so I can give it a
> try
> > and see if its a config issue, or some device
> > conflict? You have the MB we're having trouble
> with,
> > so maybe we can learn enough to give you some
> ideas.I
> > have a system with an H8SSL-i that just plain
> doesn't
> > work with either SATA or IDE.
> >   
> Sure find my config attached currently used with
> plain releng_7.
> It might be worth while to compare HW revisions etc
> as well as there 
> might be differences.
> One thing you could try would be to install a 6.2
> system and if that 
> still works just grap ATA from releng_6 as that is
> now the same as in 
> -current and should fit almost cleanly into 6.2 as
> is, then give that a 
> run. Depending on the outcome we'll know more about
> where to look for 
> the problem.
> 
> For references sake could we please get a list of
> the actual HW that 
> people have problems with listed here, as detailed
> as possible please.
> 
> -Søren
> 
> > machine		i386
> cpu		I686_CPU
> ident		DEEPCORE
> 
> makeoptions	DEBUG=-g		# Build kernel with gdb(1)
> debug symbols
> makeoptions	MODULES_OVERRIDE=""
> 
> options 	SCHED_4BSD		# 4BSD scheduler
> options 	PREEMPTION		# Enable kernel thread
> preemption
> options 	INET			# InterNETworking
> options 	FFS			# Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options 	SOFTUPDATES		# Enable FFS soft updates
> support
> options 	UFS_ACL			# Support for access control
> lists
> options 	UFS_DIRHASH		# Improve performance on big
> directories
> options 	NFSCLIENT		# Network Filesystem Client
> options 	NFSSERVER		# Network Filesystem Server
> options 	MSDOSFS			# MSDOS Filesystem
> options 	CD9660			# ISO 9660 Filesystem
> options 	PROCFS			# Process filesystem (requires
> PSEUDOFS)
> options 	PSEUDOFS		# Pseudo-filesystem framework
> options 	COMPAT_43		# Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP
> THIS!]
> options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD4		# Compatible with FreeBSD4
> options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD5		# Compatible with FreeBSD5
> options 	COMPAT_FREEBSD6		# Compatible with FreeBSD6
> options 	KTRACE			# ktrace(1) support
> options 	SYSVSHM			# SYSV-style shared memory
> options 	SYSVMSG			# SYSV-style message queues
> options 	SYSVSEM			# SYSV-style semaphores
> options 	_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX
> P1003_1B realtime extensions
> options 	KBD_INSTALL_CDEV	# install a CDEV entry in
> /dev
> options 	ADAPTIVE_GIANT		# Giant mutex is adaptive.
> 
> # Firewall stuff.
> options		IPFIREWALL
> options		IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
> options		IPDIVERT
> options		DUMMYNET
> 
> # Basic HW infrastructure support.
> device		apic			# I/O APIC
> device		acpi			# ACPI support
> 
> # Bus support.
> device		pci
> 
> # ATA and ATAPI devices
> device		ata
> device		atadisk		# ATA disk drives
> device		ataraid		# ATA RAID drives
> device		atapicd		# ATAPI CDROM drives
> device		atapifd		# ATAPI floppy drives
> device		atapist		# ATAPI tape drives
> device		atausb		# USB device support
> #options 	ATA_STATIC_ID	# Static device numbering
> 
> # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2
> mouse
> device		atkbdc		# AT keyboard controller
> device		atkbd		# AT keyboard
> device		psm		# PS/2 mouse
> device		kbdmux		# keyboard multiplexer
> 
> # syscons is the default console driver, resembling
> an SCO console
> device		sc
> device		splash		# Splash screen and screen saver
> support
> device		vga		# VGA video card driver
> device		agp		# support several AGP chipsets
> 
> # Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
> device		pmtimer
> 
> # Serial (COM) ports
> device		sio		# 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
> 
> # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus
> controller code.
> # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in
> order to use these NICs!
> device		miibus		# MII bus support
> device		bge		# Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet
> device		de		# DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')
> 
> # Pseudo devices.
> device		loop		# Network loopback
> device		random		# Entropy device
> device		ether		# Ethernet support
> device		tun		# Packet tunnel.
> device		pty		# Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
> device		gif		# IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
> 
> # The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet
> Filter.
> # Be aware of the administrative consequences of
> enabling this!
> # Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP.
> device		bpf		# Berkeley packet filter
> 
> # USB support
> device		uhci		# UHCI PCI->USB interface
> device		ohci		# OHCI PCI->USB interface
> device		ehci		# EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
> device		usb		# USB Bus (required)
> #device		udbp		# USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
> device		ugen		# Generic
> device		uhid		# "Human Interface Devices"
> device		ukbd		# Keyboard
> device		ulpt		# Printer
> device		ums		# Mouse
> > _______________________________________________

This is the HW info on the MBs we've tested. Both of
them run fine on 6.2 and both don't work at all in any
mode on 7.0. We've tried the 6.2 code in the 7.0
system, with the same problem. So it doesn't appear to
be the ATA code specifically.

Opteron / HT1000 details:

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron1000/HT1000/H8SSL-i2.cfm

Supermicro H8SSL-i2 Opteron 1000-series AM2
Motherboard with:
AMD Opteron 1222 3.0GHz Dual-Core CPU (running UP)
2x512MB Corsair DDR2 PC2-4200

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/HT2000/H8SSP-i.cfm

Supermicro H8SSP-i Opteron 200-series Motherboard
with:
AMD Opteron 244 1.8GHz CPU
2x512MB Corsair PC3200 Registered DDR

Barney

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