Re: Prebinding for DragonFly/FreeBSD-4

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

Yeah... it was a response to a comment I made about not being able to 
boot DFBSD
yet on my hardware... sorry for the lack of context but others had 
asked me for this
information so I just cc'd the list.

Anyway SATA works on FBSD CURRENT at the moment pretty well and the 
disks
in question aren't SATA but just on the Nforce2 IDE controller.  Does 
anyone else
experience similar problems with this motherboard chipset?

Dave
On Sep 23, 2003, at 11:22 AM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Was this conversation started on the list in the middle?  I seem to
>     have missed the context.
>
>     Could someone give a quick overview of the use of serial ATA in
>     FreeBSD/DragonFly?  I know that the ATA driver has gone through 
> several
>     incarnations.  We are using incarnation #2 in DragonFly (the same 
> as
>     4.8), while FreeBSD-5 is now on incarnation #3 (and having serious 
> issues
>     with it).  There was a lot of breakage between incarnation #1 (the 
> wd
>     drivers) and #2, and between #2 and #3, which to me means that we 
> have
>     to stick with what we have now and try to fix it verses, say, 
> trying to
>     import the new infrastructure from FreeBSD-5.
>
>     The error below sounds like a DMA problem.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> :Ok I got the 9/22 snapshot
> :and it fails to boot beyond the following:
> :
> :ad0: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-00DGA0> [77545/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSDMA
> :WARNING: "ad" is usurping "ad"'s cdevsw[]
> :ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> :ata0: resetting devices ..
> :
> :and then it hangs.  I am sure its the SATA or something related to the
> :  NForce2 IDE controller causing this havoc.
> :
> :Dave
> :On Sep 20, 2003, at 8:25 PM, David Rhodus wrote:
> :
> :>
> :> On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 08:32 AM, David Leimbach wrote:
> :>> I bet those things are relatively easy to fix... I just need to 
> take
> :>> some time
> :>> this weekend and actually see if I can run DFBSD with one of the
> :>> later snapshots.
> :>>
> :>> I still can't boot it here.
> :>
> :> Dave, is there a specific point in the boot process were
> :> your getting hung up at ? Or is it just sitting spinning the
> :> cd ?
> :>
> :> Also have you tried to boot a FreeBSD 4.8 cd ? Just to
> :> check if something has gotten broken since we branched
> :> off the cvs tree.
> :>
> :> -DR