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From: Jiafu He <jiafu_he@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Debugging APIC problem (R5.2.1 vt-8235 ata failure no
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: 
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?

I can see it on my monitor, However I can't even have my disk attached, do I have a way to save it anywhere? :( If you want a dmesg from R5.1, I can send it to you.
 
Jiafu
 

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