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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:34:59 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New ATA issue: locked out
Message-ID:  <48085D33.6080804@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <480855AA.3040507@delphij.net>
References:  <83e5fb980804180034i2505ebbcv5930d3a56ecdaf90@mail.gmail.com> <48084FA8.2070503@delphij.net> <480853F7.1020008@freebsd.org> <480855AA.3040507@delphij.net>

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Xin LI wrote:
> David Xu wrote:
>> Xin LI wrote:
>>> Diego Depaoli wrote:
>>>> Trying to mount / fails with no mountroot and a wide geom's list.
>>>> Booting previous kernel results in panic guessing Bios (or some 
>>>> similar).
>>>> Kernel from two hours ago.
>>>
>>> I found that latest ATA driver has some problems with ICH8M's AHCI 
>>> mode, but switching to compatible mode seems to be a good 
>>> workaround.  Is your hard drive probed by the kernel?  Also, can you 
>>> try old kernel to see if it work?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> mine is Intel 82801GB/R (ICH7).
> 
> Have you tried non-AHCI mode?  Mine is glabel/newfs -L'ed so everything 
> just work after the change, but if you are using different configuration 
> then some fstab/others tweak would be necessary...
> 
> Cheers,

The BIOS did set it to AHCI mode, FreeBSD was installed 2.5 years ago,
the disk was never partitioned again after that. I reset it to ATA mode
in BIOS, and the machine boots again.

Thanks,





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