Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:24:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?! Message-ID: <20050331102249.D76590@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20050331144327.40197.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050331144327.40197.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Rob wrote: > > --- Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: > > > > AFAIK the RZ1000 bug was that it would corrupt data > > to the slave channel if the primary channel was > > also active. If you only have one device then > > you may not be able to reproduce it. > > I have two harddisks on ata0: > > ad0: 520MB <ST3660A> > [1057/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO > ad1: 2423MB <SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB)> > [4924/16/63] at ata0-slave BIOSPIO > > ad0 has the base OS, and ad1 has /usr/src and > /usr/obj for recompiling world and kernel. > > So far no problems. > However, if I remember well, the other IDE connector > on the motherboard does not seem to work, which now > I realize could be caused by the buggy RZ 1000 chip. Entirely possible. > > Do you have verbose boot output from the non-working > > 5.x boot? > > No, not at the moment. I may try 5.3 (or probably > 5.4) later once again. What part of the output would > be particularly interesting? > I ask, because I am managing this PC at the other end > of the world, giving instructions to a non-Unix, > non-FreeBSD user overthere :). Ugh. That will make this really hard to debug then. To get the verbose output you want to use a serial console. That output will say why it won't attach the ata controller. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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