From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 3 09:32:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD0A1065674 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20238FC2A for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id o839W3U1073535 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 02:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id o839W3ia073534 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Sep 2010 02:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA16027; Fri, 3 Sep 10 02:13:37 PDT Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:13:33 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <4c80bc3d.bsLwHSU5+KZyQFD6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_4c80bc3d.2IdRE/sO1uaSgnX1JIBscLoMl1gOz1+qwhAQwBYaONqlBXuO" Subject: two ata-related problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:32:04 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_4c80bc3d.2IdRE/sO1uaSgnX1JIBscLoMl1gOz1+qwhAQwBYaONqlBXuO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 (yes, I know it's old): 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive? I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS Setup recognizes it. (It and a CDROM are on the secondary IDE channel; I've tried with each of them as master and either way the CD is recognized but the Zip is not.) 2. It currently has the original A01 BIOS. I'm going to have to update that, because it doesn't recognize the 320GB drive I've added as a new boot drive. With the 320GB installed as unit 0 (master) on the primary IDE channel, the A01 BIOS won't even recognize the previously-working 40GB drive which is now unit 1; so the BIOS disables that channel entirely keeping FreeBSD from seeing those drives either. A BIOS upgrade should be straightforward, but while Googling I ran into a posting where someone apparently had a lot of trouble with a BIOS upgrade for one of these of boxes. Thus the question: Has anyone here had any experience, either good or bad, with running FreeBSD on one of these with an upgraded BIOS? If so, which version? I found A06, A07, A10, A11, and A13 on Dell's FTP site. dmesg (from a USB boot) attached. The reported 320GB (on an add-in card) is a twin of the one described above that isn't recognized on the primary on-board channel. I want them on separate channels to improve mirroring performance. --=_4c80bc3d.2IdRE/sO1uaSgnX1JIBscLoMl1gOz1+qwhAQwBYaONqlBXuO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="dmesg" Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel Pentium III (731.47-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Family = 6 Model = 8 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383fbff real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 506056704 (482 MB) ACPI APIC Table: ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1 ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, f00000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 1000000, 1ef9e000 (3) failed Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: on hostb0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 vgapci0: mem 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff,0xfcffc000-0xfcffffff,0xfc000000-0xfc7fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem 0xf8fffc00-0xf8fffc7f irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci2 miibus0: on xl0 xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> PHY 24 on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: Ethernet address: 00:b0:d0:22:5a:14 xl0: [ITHREAD] pci2: at device 6.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: port 0xdc70-0xdc7f,0xdc50-0xdc5f,0xdc30-0xdc3f,0xdc10-0xdc1f,0xd8e0-0xd8ff,0xd400-0xd4ff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci2 atapci0: [ITHREAD] ata2: on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: on atapci0 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: on atapci0 ata4: [ITHREAD] pcib3: at device 14.0 on pci2 pci3: on pcib3 ahc0: port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfafff000-0xfaffffff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci3 ahc0: [ITHREAD] aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs ahc1: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffefff irq 19 at device 10.1 on pci3 ahc1: [ITHREAD] aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci1: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: on atapci1 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: on atapci1 ata1: [ITHREAD] uhci0: port 0xff80-0xff9f irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 uhci0: [ITHREAD] uhci0: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus0: on uhci0 pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached) atrtc0: port 0x70-0x7f irq 8 on acpi0 fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER] uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 uart1: [FILTER] ppc0: port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppc0: [ITHREAD] ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 plip0: [ITHREAD] lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: [ITHREAD] lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcdfff,0xce000-0xcffff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 731471411 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xc0fb5504 usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 ugen0.1: at usbus0 uhub0: on usbus0 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO4 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered device_attach: afd0 attach returned 6 ugen0.2: at usbus0 umass0: on usbus0 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000 ad4: 61136MB at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s acd1: DVDR at ata3-master UDMA66 SATA 1.5Gb/s ad8: 305245MB at ata4-master UDMA133 umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2 da0 at ahc0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 127, 16bit) da0: Command Queueing enabled da0: 8683MB (17783249 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C) da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 da1: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 1.000MB/s transfers da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) GEOM: da1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 64h,32s). GEOM: da1: media size does not match label. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 --=_4c80bc3d.2IdRE/sO1uaSgnX1JIBscLoMl1gOz1+qwhAQwBYaONqlBXuO--