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Date:      Sat, 03 May 2008 09:03:45 +0100
From:      Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
To:        "Shaun Sabo" <shaun.bsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller 
Message-ID:  <200805031603.QAA03668@sopwith.solgatos.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 May 2008 10:46:11 EDT." <be79767b0805030746j330c79dkab637f32902ed333@mail.gmail.com> 

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> Im really not too concerned about the bios bug. i just figured it might be a
> side effect of freebsd not being able access the disks. just out of
> curiosity though, before i upgrade 6.2 to 7.0 again, what is the atpic
> device supposed to do?

My understanding is that atpic is the old way of mapping interrupts,
and apic is the new way.  If apic doesn't work for whatever reason,
you need atpic.

I was was getting lots of errors like
	Could not allocate irq
	attach returned 6
	no driver attached

Can't map interrupt -> can't attach driver -> can't talk to disks
-> can't mount root



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