From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 19:22:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ECD16A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 19:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web2.merit.edu (web2.merit.edu [198.108.62.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DE043D54 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 19:22:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: by web2.merit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9050) id 83998185F; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:22:54 -0400 From: William Bulley To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20050408192254.GO16883@web2.merit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: William Bulley , Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems installing FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on UltraSPARC IIe X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:22:55 -0000 According to Garance A Drosihn : > What model of ATA controller is it? I don't know and I don't know how to determine this. Would it show up in the FreeBSD boot log (like dmesg(8) ouput)? If so, then this booting output is from what I sent in my first message: atapci0: > Did you test the other drives under solaris, or only under FreeBSD? All our Sun Blades have the 40 GB Western Digital drives and Solaris on them. I replaced one of these with a brand new, blank, Western Digital 40 GB drive and had the same disappointing results. :-( My point is that these Sun Blades work with Solaris. I tried different Sun Blades (as I said previously) just in case I had picked a bad system... > It might be that other hard drives will work better once the newest > ATA support is committed. I went through all kinds of agony on 5.3 > with multiple types of hard drives, on multiple kinds of SATA disk > controllers. That agony included lots of "WRITE_DMA timed out" and > "READ_DMA timed out" messages. And I had plenty of recommendations > that I needed to buy new hard disks. I did do that, and I did switch > SATA controllers (trying three different controllers), but those > changes never really solved the problems, they only changed the nature > of the trouble I was seeing. This is most disheartening news to read, sigh... :-( > Things have been much better for me with the latest ATAng changes in > 6.x-current, and we now have the even newer ATAmkIII changes (which I > have not tried yet). Admittedly all of my headaches were in i386, not > sparc64, but it wouldn't surprise me if many of the same issues exist. I don't much care what flavour of FreeBSD that I run on these uSPARC IIe boxes, but I'd much prefer to run FreeBSD than OpenBSD or (shudder) Linux. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu