From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 9 13:46:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E14937B560 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 13:46:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 12eObM-0005xC-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2000 16:46:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 16:46:36 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 ATA on an old laptop failing Message-ID: <20000409164636.C18060@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a couple of suggestions in private mail that sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio would work around this, but I can't find any way to apply this, the kernel runs sysinstall as init ... Since I'm using a pcmcia network card I put a script in as /etc/pccard_ether which runs the sysctl. I get; hw.atamodes: pio,---, -> pio,---, and the same error as before; ad0: HARD DISK ERROR blk# 0 status=51 error=04 ado: reading primary partition table: error readinf fsbn 0 3.4-PAO has been running fine overnight. Another suggestion is a custom kernel build that uses wd and install with that. I did this on my 4.0-STABLE machine (hoping that 4.0-R and stable havn't changed enough for it to matter). It detected the cntroller and the disk as I'd expect, but when I try to partition the disk with sysinstall it complains that there are no disks ... sysinstall will only do da and ad ? Still can't get 4.0 on this machine :/ P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message