From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 6 4:27: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A9D37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 04:27:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dove.penix.org (dove.penix.org [216.144.7.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8709543E77 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 04:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Received: from dove.penix.org (dp@localhost.nls.net [127.0.0.1]) by dove.penix.org (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA6CQt4J044146 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:26:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Received: from localhost (dp@localhost) by dove.penix.org (8.12.5/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id gA6CQtf0044143 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:26:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 07:26:55 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Halliday To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Itronix 6250. Message-ID: <20021106070127.I44102-100000@dove.penix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install free on this machine, as I have no floppy/cdrom for this box I am restricted to installing via another laptop then swapping the drive back. Boot goes fine until: ata0-master: no status, reselecting device ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00 ata0-master: ata identify failed I put the drive back into the other laptop and added hw.ata.ata_dma="0" and retried, again recieving the same errors. For fun I tried NetBSD and the machine boots fine. For reference the drive appears as: wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0:(IBM-DDLA-21620) wd0: drive supports 16 sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing wd0: 1551MB, 3152 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3177216 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 What is it that is restricting Free from booting while allowing netbsd to boot properly? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Note: the bios on this machine, although updated is very limited to drive specific configuration options so anything I do modify must be on the OS end. Thanks. Paul Halliday. http://dp.penix.org ------------------- "And so your god bungled his work deliberately, in order to tempt or test his creature - did he then not know, did he then not doubt what the result would be?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message