Problems with new motherboard and 2TB drive

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello all. I'm not sure if this belongs on the i386 list or not, but
I'll start here.

I'm using 5.1_RC4/i386

A motherboard in my server recently died, so I ran down to the local
store and bought pretty much the first thing that I found which was an
ASUS M4A78LT-M LE, and I bought a Sempron CPU to go with it. And 1 gig
of memory. Seems plenty for what it does.

I have the dmesg pasted to the bottom if anyone is wondering about it.

I also had a new 2TB SATA drive I want to be /home, and I want to copy
all of the data off of my old /home drive to the new SATA drive.

Getting the new motherboard and related hardware up and running was
fairly uneventful. The old root disk just booted once I got a GENERIC
kernel on it. The other old disks work fine, including the old /home.

I formatted the new SATA drive for /home like this:

newfs -O 2 /dev/rwd0a

It has 1 fdisk partition which takes up the whole disk, and 1 netbsd
partition (a) which takes up the whole disk.

The first attempts to rsync the data from the old IDE ATA-100 disk to
the new SATA disk ended in real problems. I was getting panics related
to ohci, and filesystem errors. I disabled all of the USB stuff in the
BIOS, along with the built in audio adapter. I continued to get errors
related to "soft errors" which were "corrected" (I might be able to
post them if they are needed). I was checking copied files with md5,
and the copied files' md5 sums did not match. They were corrupted.
This is obviously not good.

So in the BIOS I found an option to switch from SATA in IDE mode to
SATA in AHCI mode.

I newfs'd the disk again, then started rsync and now I get no errors,
and md5 sums on random files are consistent. What did I do? Why does
this work better?

Thanks,

Andy

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NetBSD 5.1_RC4 (FOGHORN.SEP30_2010) #0: Thu Sep 30 06:11:32 MST 2010
        root@foghorn:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/FOGHORN.SEP30_2010
total memory = 990 MB
avail memory = 960 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
System manufacturer System Product Name (System Version)
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: AMD 686-class, 2712MHz, id 0x100f62
cpu0: SVM disabled by the BIOS
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 1: pa 0xfec00000, version 21, 24 pins
acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20080321
acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <061110,XSDT0958,20100611>, AslId <MSFT,00000097>
acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9
acpi0: fixed-feature power button present
timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
ACPI-Fast 32-bit timer
pckbc1 at acpi0 (PSKE, PNP0303) (kbd port): io 0x60,0x64 irq 1
pckbc2 at acpi0 (PSMS, PNP0F03) (aux port): irq 12
attimer1 at acpi0 (TMR, PNP0100): io 0x40-0x43 irq 0
pcppi1 at acpi0 (SPKR, PNP0800): io 0x61
midi0 at pcppi1: PC speaker (CPU-intensive output)
sysbeep0 at pcppi1
npx1 at acpi0 (COPR, PNP0C04): io 0xf0-0xff irq 13
npx1: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
LPTE (PNP0400) at acpi0 not configured
aiboost0 at acpi0 (ASOC, ATK0110-16843024)
aiboost0: ASUS AI Boost Hardware monitor
hpet0 at acpi0 (HPET, PNP0103): mem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff
timecounter: Timecounter "hpet0" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 2000
pckbc3 at acpi0 (PS2K, PNP0303) (kbd port): io 0x60,0x64 irq 1
pckbc3: unable to map registers
acpibut0 at acpi0 (PWRB, PNP0C0C-170): ACPI Power Button
apm0 at acpi0: Power Management spec V1.2
pckbd0 at pckbc1 (kbd slot)
pckbc1: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
attimer1: attached to pcppi1
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x1022 product 0x9600 (rev. 0x00)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x1043 product 0x9602 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x9616 (rev. 0x00)
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
drm at vga1 not configured
ppb1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: vendor 0x1022 product 0x9604 (rev. 0x00)
ppb1: unsupported PCI Express version
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
wm0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: Intel i82574L, rev. 0
wm0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16
wm0: PCI-Express bus
wm0: FLASH
wm0: Ethernet address 00:1b:21:68:5c:4f
ukphy0 at wm0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000ac2, model 0x000b, rev. 1
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto
ppb2 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: vendor 0x1022 product 0x9606 (rev. 0x00)
ppb2: unsupported PCI Express version
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
vendor 0x1969 product 0x1063 (ethernet network, revision 0xc0) at pci3
dev 0 function 0 not configured
ahcisata0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4391
ahcisata0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 22
ahcisata0: AHCI revision 1.1, 6 ports, 32 command slots, features 0xf722e080
atabus0 at ahcisata0 channel 0
atabus1 at ahcisata0 channel 1
atabus2 at ahcisata0 channel 2
atabus3 at ahcisata0 channel 3
atabus4 at ahcisata0 channel 4
atabus5 at ahcisata0 channel 5
piixpm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0
piixpm0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4385 (rev. 0x3c)
piixpm0: interrupting at SMIpiixpm0: polling
iic0 at piixpm0: I2C bus
ixpide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1
ixpide0: ATI Technologies IXP IDE Controller (rev. 0x00)
ixpide0: bus-master DMA support present
ixpide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
ixpide0: primary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 14
atabus6 at ixpide0 channel 0
ixpide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
ixpide0: secondary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 15
atabus7 at ixpide0 channel 1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3
pcib0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x439d (rev. 0x00)
ppb3 at pci0 dev 20 function 4: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4384 (rev. 0x00)
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled
pdcide0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0
pdcide0: Promise Ultra133/ATA Bus Master IDE Accelerator (rev. 0x02)
pdcide0: bus-master DMA support present
pdcide0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
pdcide0: using ioapic0 pin 20 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus8 at pdcide0 channel 0
pdcide0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
atabus9 at pdcide0 channel 1
re0 at pci4 dev 7 function 0: RealTek 8169/8110 Gigabit Ethernet (rev. 0x10)
re0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 21
re0: Ethernet address 00:14:d1:13:46:56
re0: using 256 tx descriptors
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 3
rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0
pchb1: vendor 0x1022 product 0x1200 (rev. 0x00)
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1
pchb2: vendor 0x1022 product 0x1201 (rev. 0x00)
pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2
pchb3: vendor 0x1022 product 0x1202 (rev. 0x00)
amdtemp0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3
amdtemp0: AMD CPU Temperature Sensors (Family10h / Family11h)
pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 4
pchb4: vendor 0x1022 product 0x1204 (rev. 0x00)
isa0 at pcib0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2712247380 Hz quality 3000
ahcisata0 port 0: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <ST32000542AS>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 1863 GB, 3876021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3907029168 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
wd0(ahcisata0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6
(Ultra/133) (using DMA)
atapibus0 at atabus6: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8583, , D54A> cdrom removable
cd0: 32-bit data port
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
wd1 at atabus6 drive 0: <HDS722525VLAT80>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 232 GB, 484521 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 488397168 sectors
wd1: 32-bit data port
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd1(ixpide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
cd0(ixpide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA)
wd2 at atabus8 drive 0: <ST3750640A>
wd2: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd2: 698 GB, 1453521 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1465149168 sectors
wd2: 32-bit data port
wd2: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd3 at atabus8 drive 1: <ST3500630A>
wd3: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd3: 465 GB, 969021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors
wd3: 32-bit data port
wd3: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd2(pdcide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
wd3(pdcide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
raidattach: Asked for 8 units
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
pad: requested 1 units
pad0: outputs: 44100Hz, 16-bit, stereo
audio0 at pad0: half duplex, playback, capture
Searching for RAID components...
boot device: wd1
root on wd1a dumps on wd1b
dump_misc_init: max_paddr = 0x3de90000
mountroot: trying lfs...
mountroot: trying ffs...
root file system type: ffs
init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)