From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 05:31:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8840316A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web54006.mail.yahoo.com (web54006.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 103C043D1F for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:31:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 66250 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Mar 2005 05:31:14 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=aROQlSndUxZWyRYiuOSFl4q0B12Bf0dek390uVtjiTUL5wSoOreluxDML/Gg9ahimDp+pwOjNTqiwu+YECqiOzlZHr+oWKc8omrsuCeemN0hh7bKgUxBIhz/umXzzaB2y82aXBWJsX7AVavsVRGOGiAU4dL/CngXb/1oosWGEck= ; Message-ID: <20050328053114.66248.qmail@web54006.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [147.46.44.181] by web54006.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:14 PST Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:31:14 -0800 (PST) From: Rob To: FreeBSD Stable In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Randy Rowe Subject: Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:31:15 -0000 --- Randy Rowe wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 00:10 -0800, Rob wrote: > > > > I have a very old Pentium-1 PC (60 MHz). > > > > I have installed 4.11, without any problems, > > although the dmesg output has a line about buggy > > ATA controller (see below for dmesg output). > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > > 'dmesg' output after 4.11 installation: > > > > CPU: Pentium/P5 (58.18-MHz 586-class CPU) > > atapci0: > chip data loss possible> at device 1.0 on pci0 > > atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS > > If the above line is true, I am surprised that 4.11 > works. > Is the channel really disabled in BIOS? First of all, I'm not expert in these matters. I'm just curious why I can install 4.11, but not 5.3. (I wish I could install 5.3 !!). Indeed, the BIOS is a strange issue. In the BIOS setup, I can select 1) Standard CHS 2) Logical block 3) Extended CHS, 4) Auto Detected But whatever I select here, when I get back into the the BIOS setup, to verify check my settings, I find that 1) is selected. Apparently this is what means "disabled by BIOS", but I'm not sure. The 4.11 dmesg output has following: ------------------------------------------------ CPU: Pentium/P5 (55.18-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x517 Stepping = 7 Features=0x1bf -//- atapci0: at device 1.0 on pci0 atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS -//- ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 -//- ad0: 520MB [1057/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ------------------------------------------------ Notice that the harddisks are on isa0, not on atapci0; probably because of this buggy chip and/or BIOS problem. Could it be that 5.3 install cannot (yet?) handle harddisks on isa properly? Or must I help 5.3 by setting some hints/syscontrols before loading the kernel? Thanks, Rob. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/