experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:28:10PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
> On 7/18/2013 8:49 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:49:39PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
> >>today. I will most definitely report back any findings. Thanks for
> >>your reply!
> >>
> >John, in addition to suggestions/replies from others, can you also try
> >the 10.0-CURRENT snapshot?  In particular, if your problem continues
> >with a SATA drive, I am curious if the problem still exists in head/.
> >
> >     http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/
> >
> >Thanks.
> 
> Thanks to Glen and Steve and all those who replied to my initial
> posting. I am quite pleased after having been "figuratively gone"
> from (but still running) FreeBSD for coming up on 2 years (hey--when
> it's so rock solid, it's easy when you don't have to ask questions
> :) that i can come back to these lists and still find lots of people
> willing to help! You guys (and gals) are awesome!
> 
> Anyway, it seems I have solved my problems with this new hardware.
> There was really two issues I bumped into. After installing 9.1-R I
> saw this "timeout" problem to ahcich1 device and it would "hang" for
> about 5 minutes then continue to boot. Then I tried 9.2-PRE but
> there the keyboard was not recognized and I kept getting infinite
> "ugen0.2: <Unknown> ..... (disconnected)" errors at the install
> screen. One person said to fiddle in the BIOS with the USB settings.
> I went into the BIOS and disabled "Intel USB 3.0 Mode" support (this
> is a very new motherboard with USB 3.0). That fixed the issue! For
> those curious about -current, I also tried to install that and it
> experienced the same USB problems until I disabled this 3.0 mode.
> 
> Once I got past that and installed 9.2-PRE again, I let it timeout
> again during boot. Then I looked at the dmesg output much more
> closely than I could have during the boot from DVD. It turns out
> that I only THOUGHT it was a timeout to the SSD. The Intel Series
> 520 SSD was NOT the issue. I was getting a timeout on ahcich1 which
> from the dmesg output was my DVD burner! The SSD was on ahcich5. The
> only difference here is that by sheer happenstance, I connected the
> SSD to the SATA port owned by the Intel Z87 (Lynx Point) controller.
> The DVD burner (which is probably 5 years old) was hooked to
> ASRock's own "ASMedia ASM1061" controller. Apparently this
> controller doesn't play well with my older DVD burner. I switched
> ports and put both on the Intel controller and BOOM! Success! No
> timeouts, no funny business. Nothing. At this point i don't mind at
> all turning off the USB 3.0 mode because I have yet to actually see
> a 3.0 device in the wild and I certainly won't own one anytime soon.
> :) .... so it's kind of a moot point. I'm sure the USB developers
> will see this problem and tackle it in time. I'm just thrilled to be
> booting on this new H/W!
> 
> Thanks again to all on the list that replied!
> 

Great to hear.  Thank you for trying different suggestions, and
reporting back the results.  I'm glad things worked out (though, I'm
still a bit worried about the xhci(4) in your case...).

Glen

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