Support for Promise TX8660

[Schrauber]

Hi,

I have an Promise TX8660 SAS controller.
It appears that NAS4Free does not support this controller. So I can not access hard drives connected to it.
The same thing is under linux. The TX8660 is not supported.

But this controller can be run in SAS HBA mode. And then it is AHCI compliant.
Under linux I was able to compile my own kernel. I added the following line to the device list in the ahci driver:
{ PCI_VDEVICE(PROMISE, 0x3781), board_ahci }
The modified kernel works fine.

Now, the question is: Can I do something similar in NAS4Free to get the controller running?

Regards

[rostreich]

i don't know much about this, but kernel drivers are loaded with kldload. maybe

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kldload promise

will make it run.

then you could add this to autorun, but for embedded it's a bit more difficult.

just wait for other users, they can help you more with drivers and autorun.

[Schrauber]

There is no module named promise.

[Schrauber]

One step forward:

I have modified the driver file dev/ahci/ahci.c in the kernel source.
I added the following line to the ahci_ids struct:
{0x3781105a, 0x00, "TX8660", 0},

The I compiled a new kernel along with the howto in the wiki.

After copying the new kernel to /boot/kernel the controller gets recognized by the system. Also den harddrives are configured and accessible.

But now I permanently get the message:
interrupt storm detected on "irq19:"; throttling interrupt source

DMESG Output:

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ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada2: Command Queueing enabled
ada2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada2: Previously was known as ad8
ada3 at ahcich3 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 0
ada3: <WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0 80.00A80> ATA-9 SATA 3.x device
ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada3: Command Queueing enabled
ada3: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada3: Previously was known as ad10
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
interrupt storm detected on "irq19:"; throttling interrupt source
interrupt storm detected on "irq19:"; throttling interrupt source
interrupt storm detected on "irq19:"; throttling interrupt source
interrupt storm detected on "irq19:"; throttling interrupt source

Any suggestions?

@Mods: Maybe this thread should be moved to the development section.

[Schrauber]

OK, I found the problem.

It has something to do with my installation. NAS4Free is running under ESXi Hypervisor. I had 4 vcpus in. And this caused the interrupt storm.
I am not sure why this is. But I found similar reports on the net.
Now I have only 1 vcpu an the controler works fine with the modified kernel.