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From: Gordon Jenkins <ez771@ncf.ca>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, valerio@dogweb.be
Subject: Re:Problem Report i386/71470 : [hang] Asus P4P800-E Promise 20378 RAID
 1 problem [5.3-BETA3]

>Number:         89440
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Re: i386/71470: [hang] Asus P4P800-E Promise 20378 RAID
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 22 23:50:18 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Wed Nov 23 00:34:37 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Wed Nov 23 00:34:37 GMT 2005
>Originator:     
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
 The problem is operating system independent.  I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe 
 board with Athlon 3500+, 2 x Hitachi 250G x 16Meg buf. SATA drives + 
 250 G Maxtor IDE x16 meg. buf. on IDE Pri. Master. They work fine on 
 the VIA RAID controller VT8237, only when Promise 20378 is disabled.  
 When I hook my SATA drives to the PROMISE 20378 controller, computer 
 boots ok (Windows XP Pro).  When I enable the Promise 20378 controller, 
 I get boot problems because it fails MEM TEST.  Enabling Promise 20378 
 on ASUS Board causes memory problems and therefore boot problems.  
 Doesn't matter what memory timing you use.  I am on full auto mem clock 
 timings.  (OCZ Dual Channel, Premiere, 4 x 512M).  ASUS BIOS Flashed to 
 1014, tried 1015 BIOS Beta, more support for ECC Ram but still same 
 boot problems, went back to 1014 BIOS.  So, work around was to disable 
 Promise 20378 in BIOS and switch drives to VIA VT8237 controller in 
 RAID 1 mode, works ok.   Use HT clock of 800 MHZ for  8x AGP instead of 
 1000 MHZ for Sapphire Radeon ATI 9800SE, otherwise you get video 
 lockups. Its kind of sad these ASUS boards don't work 
 as "PROMISE"'d ;)  
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Wed Nov 23 00:33:36 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled followup to i386/71470; content migrated. 

I have changed the Synopsis to one that would have automatically been 
correctly picked up by GNATS. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Nov 23 00:33:36 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=89440 
>Unformatted:
  1 problem [5.3-BETA3]
