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Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:04:35 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: atapci0 error with 4.0!
Message-ID:  <20000429110435.C29290@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <060901bfb1a6$43d0ad20$0200000a@danco>; from dan@mostgraveconcern.com on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0700
References:  <060901bfb1a6$43d0ad20$0200000a@danco>

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0700, Dan O'Connor wrote:
> Oh, no! FBSD 4.0 doesn't like my Dell Dimension XPS 90MHz (Intel P166MHz O/D
> CPU) motherboard...
> 
> I'm in the process of upgrading 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-STABLE and after the 'make
> buildworld' and kernel compile steps, I reboot the machine into single-user
> mode, and poof--kenel panic:
> 
>     atapci0: <RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss
> possible> port 0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 1.0 on pci0
>     atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported
>     panic: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy
> 
> This error occurs not only with my custom kernel, but with GENERIC as well.
> This machine runs flawlessly with 3.4-STABLE (and 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.2.8, and
> 2.2.7 before that), so I really doubt if the ATA controller chip is *that*
> buggy.
> 
> Just to check to see if it was just this machine, I tried booting the 4.0
> installation floppies on a similar machine (w/ 90MHZ CPU) and, presto, same
> thing...
> 
> I get the impression the new ATAPI driver isn't really ready for prime time
> yet....
> 
> Is there anything I can do about this? It seems a shame to be stuck with 3.4
> for the rest of my life...
> 
> The complete boot message is below...

Here is something I was told,


-----Begin Forwarded Message-----
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000418233347.00964ce0@pop.uky.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:41:03 -0400
To: cjclark@home.com
From: Greg Childers <gchil0@pop.uky.edu>
Subject: Re: RZ100 ATA Controller Problem - Possible Workaround??
In-Reply-To: <20000418215843.D55844@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
References: <D76D503DE976D1119C7E00A0C944D87501CA7F53@rsys002a.private.roke.co.uk> <D76D503DE976D1119C7E00A0C944D87501CA7F53@rsys002a.private.roke.co.uk>


>I have this problem too. See my thread, "Problem Booting 4.0R Floppy
>(ATA Driver?)." And note the date. The day after 4.0-RELEASE was
>announced. :(
>
>3.4 was and is running again just fine on this machine (but it was a
>pain to reinstall it). I built my own kernels with some different ata
>options, but never got it to boot. Hell, I took off all IDE devices
>and compiled the kernel without ATA support and it still died.
>
>Has anyone put in a PR on this? Now that it seems pretty definate that
>it is the IDE controller, I will submit one if there isn't one
>already.
>-- 
>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

The ATA driver currently will not work with either the RZ100x or the
CMD640.  It panics.  This is a known issue, but the maintainer
considers it low priority since both of these chipsets are broken,
could cause data loss, and shouldn't be used anyway.  Perhaps you
should pick up a Promise IDE controller for about $30.

Greg

-----End Forwarded Message-----

Note that one thing I said was incorrect, if I build a kernel with no
ATA support, it will boot... but a lot of good that does me. Although
I could make the system all SCSI. An all SCSI P90... that would be
neat, huh?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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