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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:25:34 -0600
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: my problem using iBook G4
Message-ID:  <491D986E.5020701@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <491D964E.1080401@freebsd.org>
References:  <20081114121224.GG36226@freebsd.weongyo.org> <491D964E.1080401@freebsd.org>

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Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Weongyo Jeong wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a iBook G4 laptop but it has a problem when booting like as
>> follows:
>>
>>     http://weongyo.org/project/freebsd/images/20081114.jpg
>>
>> My booting steps are:
>>
>>     1. press <option>+<apple>+O+F
>>     2. 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:7
>>     3. then a panic during booting progress
>>
>> There's no problem to boot if I set `OK set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0'. Is it a
>> known issue?
> 
> Well, Marcel has seen something similar with his CD drive, but I was 
> hoping it was limited to his machine. If you are in a situation where 
> you can easily apply patches, could you try the attached one and report 
> what it prints for the firmware timing register? Marcel, could you try 
> this too?

Naturally, I forgot the patch. It lives at 
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ata.debug.diff, and should be 
applied to ata_kauai.c. Thanks!
-Nathan



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