Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:28:12 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, akbeech@gmail.com Subject: Re: SATA DVD no longer detected Message-ID: <200902270928.12511.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1235731789.64816.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <200902261732.20420.beech@freebsd.org> <1235731789.64816.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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On Friday 27 February 2009 01:49:49 Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:32 -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > My SATA dvd is no longer detected. This worked fine up until recently. > > > > dmesg: > > atapci0: <ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller> port > > 0xb000-0xb007,0xa000-0xa003,0x9000-0x9007,0x8000-0x8003,0x7000-0x700f mem > > 0xf9fff800-0xf9fffbff irq 22 at device 18.0 on pci0 > > atapci0: [ITHREAD] > > atapci0: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports PM supported > > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 > > ata2: [ITHREAD] > > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > > ata3: [ITHREAD] > > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0 > > ata4: [ITHREAD] > > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0 > > ata5: [ITHREAD] > > <SNIP> > > ad4: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-75A7B0 01.03B01> at ata2-master SATA300 > > > > uname: > > FreeBSD stargate.akherb.com 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #21: Mon Feb > > 16 12:03:51 AKST 2009 > > > > My SATA drive is detected, but not the DVD. I'm unfamiliar with this area > > so any pointers would be appreciated. > > Can you get and compare a verbose dmesg of a working and the non-working > kernel? > > There have been a handful of improvements made to the ATA code recently, > and presumably one of them has broken your system. Maybe you could > narrow down which commit lost your DVD drive by compiling HEAD from > (say) 20th Feb, and stepping forward or backwards until the commit is > pinpointed? You should be able to achieve this within 4 recompiles if > you pick your dates/times carefully. Well, if it's any help a kernel built Jan 29 works and the last one (Feb 16) doesn't. I notice a lot of commits in ata (some hourly). Work precludes me doing much until tonight or tomorrow. I'll see if I can nail it down a bit closer. The only change I see in dmesg from Jan 29 is the DVD is detected and atapicam has an entry as well. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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