Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:23:06 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>, stable@freebsd.org, "Rene 'Canyon' de Vries" <rene@canyon.demon.nl> Subject: Re: Update - 4.2 install hangs while booting Message-ID: <20001124172306.C517@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20001124161240.D41148@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:12:40PM %2B0000 References: <3A1E91B6.3040807@planetwe.com> <20001124161240.D41148@irrelevant.org>
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:12:40PM +0000, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:05:10AM -0600, Drew Sanford wrote: > > I have had a chance to play with 4.2 now, having gotten it installed, > > and narrowed down some of the hardware problems that it could be. Here's > > a system rundown: > > > > Asus A7V rev 1.02; Duron 800 > > SBLive > > NetGear FA 310Tx > > 45 GB ATA100 IBM Deskstar as Master on Primary ATA100 > > 32x ATAPI cd rom drive as Slave on Primary UDM33/66 > > > > When I boot the system with the Parallel port enabled in the bios, > > regardless of the specified IRQ or IO port in bios, I get this: > > > > ppc0: <Parallel Port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold > > ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP > > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: > > ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 810C> MLC, PCL, PML > > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > > lpt0: Interupt-driven port > > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > > > > and here the system will hang, for at least 25 minutes. Beyond that I Will it also happen without printer or ppi? I've run the same A7V with a 700Mc Duron without ever seeing this. But we had no printer connected. > > figured it was usless to wait and see if anything would happen, and I > > lost pateince besides. Here's the dmesg output for the same system, same > > kernel, but with the parallel port disabled in the bios: > > I've had the same sort of thing happen to me sometimes on my A7V, that was > with 4.1-STABLE, I've not had a chance to install 4.2 yet due to FreeBSD > misdetecting my 20GB IBM drive as 2GB when using ATA66. Usually I found > that just resetting the box after it hung there caused it to work on the > next boot. > > > lauasanf@colossus(~)$ dmesg > > ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > > ata1-slave: identify failed > > ata1-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > > ata1-master: identify failed > > ad4: 43979MB <IBM-DTLA-307045> [89355/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 > > I get the same errors as these too (although sometimes they don't appear). > I think that is just a "feature" of the Promise controller as it could > be that which makes Windows pause ages while booting. As we have a ATA66 disk we have it on the ATA66 controller, not on the ATA100. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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