Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-CURRENT on an IBM NAS 300G. Message-ID: <20040204164438.B96240@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4021779E.4010807@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> References: <401EE12F.4070005@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <4021779E.4010807@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Carl Makin wrote: > >Try booting -v and see how much farther it gets. On my -current box, > >right after that is the pcibios/PIR probe, then the ACPI tree walk to > >attach devices. Its possible the ACPI code in your system is fatally > >flawed. > > > I think that's it. Weirdly it occasionally booted right through but > that was very rare. Following the instructions on the FreeBSD ACPI > website I dumped the code and recompiled it with iasl. It found one > warning about not returning a value to a function which a linux website > noted which I fixed. > > With the new DSDT.asl installed it seems to boot on the second attempt. > It just hung on the "Timecounter" line again, but a reset then a verbose > boot and its booted all the way. <sigh> neat. > Its now complaining of > > can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE > > It gives the same error message for PCI1 and PCI2 as well. My X335 does this, so its some wierdness in the ACPI that I didn't want to spend time debugging. Didn't seem to cause any major harm. > >Have you tried upgrading the BIOS? > > > > > Not yet. I'll look and see if that is possible. One problem is that > this box is designed and sold by IBM to run win2k as a NAS. IMNSHO it > would be criminally negligent to run Win2K as a NAS so we've never put > it into production. It's not supported like a normal PC and the IBM > website is pretty bad. heh. :) > I was hoping to use it as my desktop machine as it has dual 1.1Ghz PIII > Xeons but but it's way too noisy, so if I can't get the fan speeds > lowered then I guess I'll just disable ACPI and install it into the > computer room as a 5.2 test box. :) Good way to go. Xeons take massive airflow anyway, even if you could control them you may not be able to reduce the speed to workable levels. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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