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From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
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Subject: Re: 09/18 -CURRENT does not boot off SATA
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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