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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:11:05 -0000
From:      "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk>
To:        <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "'Brett Glass'" <brett@lariat.org>
Subject:   RE: 4.4-RELEASE hangs on boot with Promise Ultra100 TX2 installed
Message-ID:  <002501c1a0d9$fd594d00$c80aa8c0@lfarr>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020118183308.00db4460@localhost>

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Have you tried the floppies from the 4.5 RC?

Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Brett Glass
> Sent: 19 January 2002 01:52
> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: 4.4-RELEASE hangs on boot with Promise Ultra100 TX2 installed
> 
> 
> I've been working on a server which has two EIDE chips 
> installed: One on 
> the motherboard (part of the Intel 440BX chipset) and a 
> Promise Ultra100 TX2 
> in a PCI slot. I want to use the latter controller for the 
> hard drives -- 
> because it's faster -- and use the motherboard chip only for 
> the CD-ROM.
> 
> Trouble is, FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE to hang in the middle of the 
> bootstrap 
> process whenever the Promise card is installed. Here are the 
> diagnostic 
> messages:
> 
> \Console: serial port
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> BIOS drive D: is disk2
> BIOS 639kB/1047296kB available memory
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
> (root@, Sun Dec 30 00:07:57 MST 2001)
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> /kernel text=0xf203b data=0x15694+0x10f10 
> syms=[0x4+0x1d2d0+0x4+0x22048]
> \
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [kernel]...
> Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 
> 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All 
> rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Sat Dec 29 23:56:12 MST 2001
>     root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/TRIB
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 534547942 Hz
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (534.55-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x665  Stepping = 5
>   
> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR
> ,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA
> T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
> real memory  = 1073479680 (1048320K bytes)
> avail memory = 1043091456 (1018644K bytes)
> pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc025a000.
> Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc025a09c.
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f2ba0
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Intel 82443BX host to PCI bridge (AGP disabled)> on 
> motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at 
> device 7.1 on pci0
> 
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 10
> chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 
> 0x440-0x44f at device 7.
> 3 on pci0
> fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xef00-0xef3f 
> mem 0xff900000-0xff9f
> ffff,0xffaf7000-0xffaf7fff irq 5 at device 12.0 on pci0
> fxp0: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:11:7c:38
> inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xee80-0xeebf 
> mem 0xff800000-0xff8f
> ffff,0xffaf6000-0xffaf6fff irq 5 at device 13.0 on pci0
> fxp1: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:11:7c:39
> inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
> inphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> atapci1: <Promise TX2 ATA100 controller> port 
> 0xef90-0xef9f,0xefe0-0xefe3,0xefa8
> -0xefaf,0xefe4-0xefe7,0xeff0-0xeff7 mem 0xffafc000-0xffafffff 
> irq 11 at device 1
> 4.0 on pci0
> ata2: at 0xeff0 on atapci1
> ata3: at 0xefa8 on atapci1
> fxp2: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xed80-0xedbf 
> mem 0xff700000-0xff7f
> ffff,0xffaf5000-0xffaf5fff irq 7 at device 15.0 on pci0
> fxp2: Ethernet address 00:03:47:ad:c2:b2
> inphy2: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus2
> inphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 
> 0xc8000-0xc8fff,0xc9000-0xc9fff,0xca000-0xcbfff,0xd
> c000-0xdffff on isa0
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 
> drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A, console
> sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> sio1: type 16550A
> RTC BIOS diagnostic error 20<config_unit>
> ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
> ata1-slave: identify failed
> 
> [System hangs indefinitely at this point]
> 
> Note that the system recognizes the Promise card but seems to 
> hang right at
> the point where it would normally be probing the card for 
> attached hard
> drives.
> 
> If I remove all hard drives from the Promise card, the card's 
> boostrap ROM
> code (which is activated before the MBR is loaded) displays 
> the message 
> "BIOS not installed." In this case, FreeBSD boots.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong? I could venture some guesses, but I'm 
> not intimately
> familiar with the IDE code.
> 
> --Brett
> 
> P.S. -- Just as an aside, what's the "RTC BIOS" message 
> about? It doesn't 
> appear to be related to this problem, but I'm curious.
> 
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