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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:10:21 +1100
From:      Craig Wilson <craig@natsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Compaq Armada E700 PIII 500 With FreeBSD3.4
Message-ID:  <38BB54BD.1A06@natsoft.com.au>

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I am trying to install FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE onto a Compaq Armada E700
however FreeBSD is failing to probe the IDE controller (wdc0).

I have searched the GNATS problem data base, and read documentation
but cannot find a solution.

I attempted to download FreeBSD4.0RC but it is going to take 15 hours
so I gave this option away.

I did boot RedHat Linux 6 on this computer and it did find the
controller & hard drive. Win98 also works fine.
FreeBSD3.4 also worked on a Compaq Armada E700 PII 400,
I no longer have access to this computer to determine any chip
differences.

I looked at the IDE settings under Win98 and they were irq 14  0x1f0.

There are no BIOS parameters affecting the hard drive to set, in fact
there are very few BIOS setup options.

I tried flags 0x2000 on wdc0, but to no avail.

Could someone please give me some clues as to get this to work or
to find out what is happening.

This computer is a PIII 500Mhz with a 18GIG IDE Hard Drive.
The boot screen from the 3.4 CD is as follows, I have copied this
by hand from the laptop so I have only included relevant lines:

avail memory = 10506240 (10260K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc05fa000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Intel 82443BX host to PCI bridge> rev 0x03 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <Intel 82443BX host to AGP bridge> rev 0x03 on pci0.1.0
chip2: <PCI to CardBus bridge (vendor=104c device=ac1b)> rev 0x03 int a
irq 11 on pci0.4.0
chip3: <PCI to CardBus bridge (vendor=104c device=ac1b)> rev 0x03 int a
irq 11 on pci0.4.1
chip4: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x03 on pci0.7.0
ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 pn pci0.7.1
chip5: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> rev 0x03 on pci0.7.3
fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x09 int a irq 11 on
pci0.9.0
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:b4:c0:91:00:a6, 10Mbps
Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
vga0: <ATI model 4c4d graphics accelerator> rev 0x64 int a irq 11 on
pci1.0.0
Probing for devices on PCI bus 2:
Probing for devices on PCI bus 3:
Probing for PnP devices:
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 on isa
sc0: VGA colour <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
psm0 irq 12 on isa
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 not found at 0x1f0                    (****My Problem****)
wdc1 not found at 0x170
ppc0: at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
lpt0: Interupt-driven port
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
changing root device to fd0c
rootfs is 2880 Kbyte compiled in MFS

The systems sees ide_pci0 but fails to see wdc0.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.


Regards Craig Wilson
National Software Pty Ltd


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