From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 14:52:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBC916A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from figg.securenet.com.au (ns2.isecure.com.au [202.125.4.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA2743D2F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:52:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from iron.securenet.com.au (iron.isecure.com.au [202.125.4.94] (may be forged))i14MqH4D032141; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:52:17 +1100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by iron.securenet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) id i14MqHho015963; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:52:17 +1100 (EST) Received: from nodnsquery(10.11.3.10) by iron.securenet.com.au via csmap (V6.0) id srcAAA37ailF; Thu, 5 Feb 04 09:52:17 +1100 Received: from vmail.aipo.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) id i14MqGOm030342; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:52:17 +1100 Received: from xena.aipo.gov.au (xena.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.52]) by vmail.aipo.gov.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i14MqFZM038977; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:52:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from xena.ipaustralia.gov.au (newton.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.18]) by xena.aipo.gov.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i14MqEnK030659; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:52:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Message-ID: <4021779E.4010807@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 09:52:14 +1100 From: Carl Makin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, dwhite@gumbysoft.com References: <401EE12F.4070005@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <20040203155828.B86301@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040203155828.B86301@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 5-CURRENT on an IBM NAS 300G. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:52:23 -0000 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. 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.