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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:42:06 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Director Dominic Baines <dombaines@mmbq.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: abit bp6 hpt66 udma support
Message-ID:  <20000831164206.F29856@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <008e01c01310$918fd1a0$6501a8c0@domain>; from dombaines@mmbq.demon.co.uk on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:59:04AM %2B0100
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On Thursday, 31 August 2000 at  6:59:04 +0100, Dominic Director Baines wrote:
 On  Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:42 AM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 30 August 2000 at 11:46:17 +0100, Dominic Baines wrote:
>>> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>
>>>> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 29 August 2000 at 15:39:49 +0000, Dominic Baines wrote:
>>> ata2-master : ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
>>> ata2-master : identify failed
>>> ata3-master : ata_command: timeout waiting for intr
>>> ata3-master : identify failed
>>>
>>> so that hard drives are not recognised.
>>>
>>> They are FUJITSU (not IBM) MPF3204AT
>>>
>>> The 4 HDD's I have (only want 4 on the UDMA controllers) are all
>>> identical on this system (IBM's are in second Linux server) and
>>> every one is recognised if I place on ata0-slave channel.
>>>
>>> The cables ARE <18cm UDMA 66 cables.  The system boots and
>>> recognises all the HDD fine in MSDOS, NT and RedHat 6.2 Linux.
>>
>> This is beginning to look like a compatibility problem of some kind.
>> Can you try the drives in the same slots, but with normal disk cables?
>> That will force the controller to restrict them to UDMA 33.
>>
>>> I see the same behaviour on the ABIT BE6-II M/B (Single slot 1) with
>>> the same controllers.
>>
>> And the same disks?
>
> Will try changing the cables to normal EIDE versions.
>
> No luck with the  changed cables either :-(
>
> Yes, same disks in both PC's (I swapped them over)
>
> Any other ideas ?

I suppose it's bug report time.  Let's see the output of a verbose
boot.

Greg
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