From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 18:24:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98B516A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:24:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E8543D58 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:24:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 891D072DDD; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B2F72DD4; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:24:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:24:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Rob In-Reply-To: <20050331144327.40197.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050331102249.D76590@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20050331144327.40197.qmail@web54004.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:24:41 -0000 On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Rob wrote: > > --- Doug White 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 > [1057/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO > ad1: 2423MB > [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