From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 2:23:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB42915CAC for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 02:23:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from niels@fusix.nl) Received: from [195.173.237.202] (helo=fusix.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11Jvjl-0001a0-00; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:22:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (niels@localhost) by fusix.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA08336; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:42:49 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:42:49 +0200 (MEST) From: "Niels M. Raijer" To: Ben Smithurst Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot problem: atapi1.0: unknown phase In-Reply-To: <19990825232904.A2807@scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Niels M. Raijer wrote: > > > However, during the boot I have about a 90% chance it seems to get the > > error "atapi0.1: unknown phase" (or "atapi1.0: unknown phase", depending > > on whether I connect the CD-ROM to the primary or secondary > > IDE-interface). > > Does it hang when you get to this error? I've had this problem on two Yes, it hangs completely. I know from experience that *nix machines can appear to hang, but continue booting after a few minutes, so I just left it with the error message. After about thirty minutes, nothing had happened yet ;-) I'd call that a hang. > the other (a new AMD K6-2 with a 40-speed drive) the system hung at that That's what I have, too. AMD K6-2/400 with 128 MB, and the CD drive is a Lite-On LTN382, which seems to be a 40-speed ATAPI player. > Also, I found putting a CD in the drive seemed to help.. but perhaps > this was just coincidence, or me imagining it. That was my experience exactly -- although I think we're both imagining it. At one point, the machine would boot fine with a CD inside, but I've found that it doesn't help all the time. > You don't say what FreeBSD version this is.. You could either update to Sorry. It's 3.2-STABLE. The CDs are labelled "June 1999". At this point, as I have a working FreeBSD installation, I have simply disconnected the CD-ROM and will use NFS from one of the Linux boxes whenever I need a CD. But I'll follow up on 3.3-STABLE when it's done, upgrade, and report back ;-) Thanks for your message. --Niels -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* "Wandering far from nowhere Fusix Networks - http://www.fusix.nl | I came across an old man - Computercursussen van iMac tot Office | working alone..." - Linux-servers voor Intranet | 'Something to live for,' GEG Niels Raijer - http://www.nest.nl/~niels *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message