experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

[Steven Hartland]

Is the SSD running at 6Gbps? If so have you tried limiting the speed
to 3Gbps?

    Regards
    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Reynolds" <johnjen at reynoldsnet.org>
To: <stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 1:45 AM
Subject: experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE


> Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot of 
> 9.2-RELEASE.
> 
> I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a 
> brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new ASRock 
> motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I tried at 
> first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a bit about the 
> new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have been "out of it" 
> in terms of this list and other going's on for about a year due to 
> workload), but upon booting I was getting "timeout" errors
> 
> ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0
> ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 serr 
> 00000000 cmd 0004df17
> 
> to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured I 
> would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been spotted 
> and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot and tried to 
> install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first screen of the 
> install because of these messages:
> 
> ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected)
> uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device
> 
> and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these 
> errors about 1 per second.
> 
> So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue with this 
> hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something has 
> zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot because I 
> can't even get through the install program. :(. Same hardware, same 
> everything.
> 
> I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result.
> 
> The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install 
> 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit 
> 'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, I'm wondering 
> generically are people having problems with SSD's in FreeBSD? In this 
> hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA disk yet.
> 
> But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get 
> through install on this H/W where 9.1 could.........
> 
> -Jr
> 
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