From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 00:03:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D8816A41C; Wed, 25 May 2005 00:03:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from lakermmtao08.cox.net (lakermmtao08.cox.net [68.230.240.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A982743D1D; Wed, 25 May 2005 00:03:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.70.216]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050525000320.MPYU18139.lakermmtao08.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Tue, 24 May 2005 20:03:20 -0400 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [IPv6:::1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4P03GTL001076; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:03:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:03:11 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Message-ID: <20050524190311.711870aa@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <1FA05BA9-15DF-496B-95AE-664815096717@FreeBSD.org> References: <17042.43345.594850.534649@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050524002925.2f05fc55@dolphin.local.net> <1FA05BA9-15DF-496B-95AE-664815096717@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, David Gilbert Subject: Re: 3 things working in -STABLE and not in -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:03:21 -0000 On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:57:34 +0200, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: > On 24/05/2005, at 7:29, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >=20 > > I've been corresponding with Soren about a very similar problem. My > > DVD writer on ata1-master is not being recognized. Instead, my > > CD-RW on ata1-slave is being configured as acd0. I've been doing =20 > > daily upgrades (amd64), but still to no avail, and Soren seems to be > > stumped as well. >=20 > I don't think this is the same problem, yours seem to be interaction =20 > between the two drives that somehow makes the probe barf... I've tried your suggestion, enabling/disabling each device (in the BIOS) and rebooting. I even completely disconnected the power to the box for a minute, just in case something had gotten "stuck" in some weird state. But no matter what I do, even with the ata1-slave device marked as "Not installed" in the BIOS, it keeps getting configured as acd0. Most baffling. Both devices used to probe and configure perfectly, and from what I can gather from booting from a CD-ROM (where both devices appear as normal), there are no hardware problems *per se* that I can discern. I wish I had known about the reputation of the nVidia nForce3 chipset *before* I (rather impulsively) bought this machine. I suspect my problem is due in no small part to the notorious wonkiness of this particular chipset. :-( Is there any way to gather some more verbose diagnostics, besides a simple "boot -v"? So far, atacontrol and pciconf haven't proved to be very useful at all. Are there any other tools, in the base system or in ports, that may shed some more light on what's happening here? I think for now I may just revert to RELENG_5 and see what happens.=20 The irony of the situation is that I had only just recently really started "getting into" using my DVD drive, and it really hurts now to be without it. :-( I do hope this problem will not continue to plague me through future FreeBSD releases. If so, that may leave me no choice but to switch to another OS entirely, which I would *really* hate to have to do, as I've been using FreeBSD for nine years now, and have really come to love it. Switching to a whole new OS at this point (even another BSD) would not only sadden me greatly, but I downright shudder at the prospect of having to come to grips with what I could only rightly consider an inferior platform, as FreeBSD is definitely the best in my book. Oh well, we'll just have to wait and see, I suppose. Things generally have a tendency to work themselves out eventually. I just wish it would be sooner rather than later. :-) --=20 Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"