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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:04:03 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Jiafu He <jiafu_he@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no interrupt), need help
Message-ID:  <200407012304.03810.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040702021242.67064.qmail@web53302.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040702021242.67064.qmail@web53302.mail.yahoo.com>

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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?

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