Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 09:52:14 +1100 From: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, dwhite@gumbysoft.com Subject: Re: 5-CURRENT on an IBM NAS 300G. Message-ID: <4021779E.4010807@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20040203155828.B86301@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <401EE12F.4070005@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <20040203155828.B86301@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Hi Doug, Doug White wrote: >On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Carl Makin wrote: > > > >Try booting -v and see how much farther it gets. On my -current box, >right after that is the pcibios/PIR probe, then the ACPI tree walk to >attach devices. Its possible the ACPI code in your system is fatally >flawed. > > I think that's it. Weirdly it occasionally booted right through but that was very rare. Following the instructions on the FreeBSD ACPI website I dumped the code and recompiled it with iasl. It found one warning about not returning a value to a function which a linux website noted which I fixed. With the new DSDT.asl installed it seems to boot on the second attempt. It just hung on the "Timecounter" line again, but a reset then a verbose boot and its booted all the way. <sigh> Its now complaining of can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE It gives the same error message for PCI1 and PCI2 as well. >Have you tried upgrading the BIOS? > > Not yet. I'll look and see if that is possible. One problem is that this box is designed and sold by IBM to run win2k as a NAS. IMNSHO it would be criminally negligent to run Win2K as a NAS so we've never put it into production. It's not supported like a normal PC and the IBM website is pretty bad. >>What I'm really after is a way of switching the fans to low speed as at >>normal speed they are far too lound for a workgroup situation. >> >> > >Interesting the BIOS wouldn't manage it in non-ACPI mode. > > The fan speeds change, obviously under bios control, but the bios settings expose no options to modify them. I was hoping to use it as my desktop machine as it has dual 1.1Ghz PIII Xeons but but it's way too noisy, so if I can't get the fan speeds lowered then I guess I'll just disable ACPI and install it into the computer room as a 5.2 test box. :) Thanks, Carl.
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