Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

[Alain Hebert]

Søren Schmidt wrote:

>On Tor, 2006-03-23 at 14:55 -0500, Alain Hebert wrote:
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>>    Hi,
>>
>>    I'm about to invest in some Tyan Transport GT20 B5350G20S2H-LC.
>>
>>    But since my epic battle trying to make the Promise Fasttrak 2300TX 
>>(PDC20580?) works right in Raid1, 2 weeks ago I'm a bit concern about 
>>those new SATA controllers.
>>
>>    Myself I have  a PDC20378 in (heavy) production with 5.4-CURRENT and 
>>its flawless, I also have a 3ware also in heavy production (way cool but 
>>pricy).
>>
>>    But I'm wondering if the 6300ESB controller was still stable in 
>>6-CURRENT?
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>It should be, however hotplug/hotremoval is not supported, so if you can
>live without that the work just fine.
>
    I wasn't expecting anymore than -> it works or it dont.  I'm sure 
that it will be there in the future if its worth it.

    FYI: I'm very (to oo) gratefull for your work on this...  My 
PDC20378 is working like a charme since 5.4.

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>>    Anybody need a Promise Fasttrak 2300TX to develop/test/fix?
>>
>>    I know that the 6-CURRENT driver wasn't recognizing the Raid config 
>>with the 2.5.x firmware, but was ok with the original firmware (2.0.x)
>>    
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>You can always send ATA gear to me and get (better) support that way, in
>fact that, and sponsoring time to work on it is *the* way to get ATA
>support moving forward as I have limited amounts of spare time.
>BTW this has been so for the past 6+ years :)
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    I can sponsor a card if its worth it.  But my views are: *BSD should 
not be like Linux and support sub-standard hardware.

    I dont know the stand of the community on which SATA controller to 
focus developement on.
    (Like the adaptecs where with the SCSI Interface).

    Personally, if I have to deploy mirror, geom is good enought at the 
moment.  But for real production, there is no way around a 3ware card.
    (mmm 3ware...)

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For sponsoring time:

    Heck, I'm broke and ain't a manufacturer.  (;

    My biggest problem at the moment is documentation.

    I have nothing on the PDC chipsets...

    I have spare disks, card, and a couple of P3 boxes...

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    I've been helping with the saa7135 (TV/FM card) but I have the same 
issue with chipset documentation...  So I'm reduce to be a test monkey.

    I dont have the patience anymore to endlessly try stuff up, I need 
documentation and its been a while since I saw a silicon pusher so all 
my contacts are pretty much all dried up.  (Any hint are welcome)

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