From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 7 15:44:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02379 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mcfs.whowhere.com (mcfs.whowhere.com [209.1.236.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA02374 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erkaf@my-dejanews.com) Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by my-dejanews.com; Mon Dec 7 15:31:54 1998 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:31:54 -0700 From: "Kelvin Farmer" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: off X-Mailer: MailCity Service Subject: Phantom hard drive detection in GENERIC? X-Sender-Ip: 192.75.12.156 Organization: Deja News Mail (http://www.my-dejanews.com:80) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, the problem goes like this: a phantom hard drive (wd3) appears to be detected when the hardware is probed. The actual harddrives and cdrom are all detected properly, and if wd3 is removed (in a custom kernel), then there are no problems. However, in the initial installation, wd3 cannot be disabled, only wdc1, which also has a CDROM connected to it, so a cdrom installation is ruled out since the detection of wd3 halts the installation process like this: wd3: can't handle 65535 heads from partition tale (truncating to 16) wd3 cannot handle 65535 sectors (max 255) wd3 wdcontrol: reca failed reading fsbn0wd3: status 7e error 4 wd3 error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (wd3 bn0;cn0 tn0 sn0) The GENERIC kernel detects my system like thus: stDMAonly disabled, pre/post enabled, intel_piix_status: IORDY sampling enabled, intel_piix_status: fast PIO enabled ide_pci: busmaster 0 status: 60 from port: 0000ffa2 ide_pci: ide0:0 has been configured for DMA by BIOS ide_pci: ide0:1 has been configured for DMA by BIOS intel_piix_status: secondary master sample = 3, master recovery = 3 intel_piix_status: secondary master fastDMAonly disabled, pre/post enabled, intel_piix_status: IORDY sampling enabled, intel_piix_status: fast PIO enabled intel_piix_status: secondary slave sample = 5, slave recovery = 4 intel_piix_status: secondary slave fastDMAonly disabled, pre/post disabled, intel_piix_status: IORDY sampling disabled, intel_piix_status: fast PIO disabled ide_pci: busmaster 1 status: 04 from port: 0000ffaa found-> vendor=0x5333, dev=0x883d, revid=0x02 class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 subordinatebus=0 secondarybus=0 intpin=a, irq=11 map[0]: type 1, range 32, base 80000000, size 26 [snip] wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 2014MB (4124736 sectors), 4092 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wd0: ATA INQUIRE valid = 0007, dmamword = 0407, apio = 0003, udma = 0007 wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): wd1: 1222MB (2503872 sectors), 2484 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wd1: ATA INQUIRE valid = 0003, dmamword = 0407, apio = 0003, udma = 0000 wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 1 (wd3): <\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?\\M^?\M^?\M^?\M^?> wd3: 95MB (196607 sectors), 65535 cyls, 65535 heads, 65535 S/T, 512 B/S wd3: ATA INQUIRE valid = ffffffff, dmamword = ffffffff, apio = ffffffff, udma = ffffffff wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, accel, dma, iordis wcd0: 1378Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, ejectable tray wcd0: 120mm photo disc loaded, unlocked Hardware: 430 HX chipset. Intel 82371 SB is the PCI Bus Master IDE controller (PIIX3) 2 Quantum harddrive correctly identified, they are master and slave on the primary IDE. 1 Matshita cdrom, master on secondary IDE. -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message