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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ATA Driver fails in IBM 5000
In-Reply-To: <001f01c0a822$6dc2a0c0$d3620a0a@megared.net.mx> from "Alejandro A. Ramirez" at "Mar 8, 2001 04:52:17 pm"
To: ales@megared.net.mx (Alejandro A. Ramirez)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:50:58 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Alejandro A. Ramirez wrote:
> Hi Soren,
> 
>     I have several IBM Netfinity 5000, where I cant install, nor use the
> CDROM, that these servers have, because it fails whe I try to access the
> CDROM, it also used to crash in FreeBSD4.1, but I havent tried in 4.2, I
> think that it is going to crash, because I do receive the same errors that I
> had with FBSD4.1, This server had worked perfectly with FBSD3.4, and the
> CDROM too, but unfortunately, this hasnt been working since I upgraded to
> 4.1 & 4.2, I also have reported this to you in the past, I was expecting to
> work correctly with 4.2, but it didnt, here it is a verbose boot from the
> server with the GENERIC Kernel, you can see the errors when detecting the
> CDROM, I hope this can help you out to find the problem, If you think that
> you need more info on this, testing, or if you need access to the system,
> just let me know.

First off, you should definitly upgrade as there has been support for
the serverworks ATA chips added since then.
Second, could you try a known working CDROM instead and see if that 
works, just to rule out other things but the drive.

-Søren

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