Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:10:25 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com> To: Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, Lance Costanzo <lance@costanzo.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secondary IDE-PCI interface invisible Message-ID: <99092319133302.00682@ehome.local.net> References: <37E82A40.95DF5966@greycat.com>
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: > Good idea. Bad news, though: DOS sees the drive fine. > FreeBSD can't even find the controller, let alone the drive. > Something tells me this one is one for the books... FreeBSD is detecting the controller. The FreeBSD 3.x IDE driver has a bug in it where, if it cannot properly handshake with a drive connected to the controller (because it is not abiding strictly by the EIDE standard), it reports that it cannot detect the controller. I verified this during my own EIDE problem by putting debugging statements all over the place, starting with where the error message was printed and working backwards. What I found was that the controller was being detected just fine, but that the EIDE initialization routine was getting confused when it sent out an EIDE 'init' command and got back what it considered to be gibberish. -- Eric Lee Green http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com There Is No Conspiracy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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