From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 03:04:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FF716A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 03:04:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D02643D49 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 03:04:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9173 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 03:03:00 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Jul 2004 03:02:59 -0000 Received: from 131.106.58.153 (p58.n-nypop02.stsn.com [199.106.89.58]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6232qvj029354; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:02:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:04:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040702021242.67064.qmail@web53302.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040702021242.67064.qmail@web53302.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407012304.03810.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Jiafu He Subject: Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 03:04:25 -0000 On Thursday 01 July 2004 10:12 pm, Jiafu He wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Rel 5.2.1 can't be installed on my machine due to APIC problems. The error > message is like "ata0-master: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY no interrupt". It is a > Soyo motherboard "SY-P4VGA" with VIA VT-8235 south bridge. > > Debugging results using DDB ("show intrcnt") show no interrupts ever occur. > Disable the APIC feature on BIOS, then the disk is detected and everything > works fine. Installing release 5.1 and 4.10 both work perfect. So I guess > there must be problems with the APIC or IO APIC initialization code in > release 5.2.1. Do you have a dmesg output with APIC enabled? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org