From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 23:16:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC9D16A420; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:16:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail6.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFB543D62; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 9262989 for multiple; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:16:50 -0500 Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1GNGWD0086971; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:16:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:15:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060215231911.GB42943@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060216225244.GC49268@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060216225244.GC49268@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602161815.17427.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1291/Thu Feb 16 15:15:09 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=1653887525 Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:16:34 -0000 On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:52, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:23:11PM +0100, Sten Spans wrote.. > > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote.. > > > > > >>Folks, > > >> > > >>I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed > > >>related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L. Test installs > > >>on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk > > >>fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't > > >>start or similar. I got: > > >> > > >>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a > > >>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.6: Unsupported relocation type > > >>1611047936 > > >>in non-PLT relocations > > >> > > >>Observed on one DS10 and one DS10L. The problem does not > > >>occur when you use a SCSI disk (which I typically do so I missed this > > >>before). > > >> > > >>Those of you who own this machine type and have a spare IDE drive, > > >>can you please test it? Other reports for different system models > > >>are interesting too of course. > > > > > >A check of 5.5-BETA1 would be interesting too. > > > > I'll give it a go this weekend on my ds10 > > (which also normally runs scsi :) > > Looks like it is not only DS10, my 164SX has similar probs as well. > 5.5-BETA1 and 6.1-BETA1 have it. In total we have seen it on 2 DS10L, > one DS10 and a 164SX now. SCSI is just fine. What if you turn dma off via 'hw.ata.dma=0' in the loader? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org