Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:24:31 -0700 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 09/18 -CURRENT does not boot off SATA Message-ID: <20030920042431.GJ47671@procyon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20030919034856.GG47671@procyon.firepipe.net> References: <20030919034856.GG47671@procyon.firepipe.net>
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 08:48:57PM -0700, Will Andrews wrote:
> My -CURRENT workstation won't boot off the WD Raptor 36GB disk,
> which is on a SiI 3112A SATA-150 controller. This was working
> with a kernel in early July. {build,install}{world,kernel}
> completed. Fortunately, it seems I can still boot with the
> older kernel. I guess ATAng problems still haven't been fleshed
> out or I'm missing something?
>
> Anyway, the disk is probed but is not correctly identified. It
> says something like:
>
> ad4: 32MB <* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *> [65537/1/1] at ata2-master WDMA0
>
> where "*" appears to be a smiley face. Strange.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this? Thanks in advance.
So, having received no response to this, I decided to bootstrap
the machine using a PATA disk. Funny that, the machine won't
boot off the PATA disk directly. Hilarity ensues. For details,
see: http://csociety.org/~will/dmesg.badATAng
which is the output of dmesg -a where I booted -v.
Regards,
--
wca
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