Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:44:07 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Halliday <dp@dove.penix.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hard drive woes.. (itronix) Message-ID: <20021121083825.W14089-100000@dove.penix.org>
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I am trying to install free on this machine, as I have no
floppy/cdrom for this box I am restricted to installing via another laptop
then swapping the drive back.
Boot goes fine until:
ata0-master: no status, reselecting device
ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00
ata0-master: ata identify failed
For fun I tried NetBSD and the machine boots fine. For reference under
FreeBSD the drive appears as:
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0:(IBM-DDLA-21620)
wd0: drive supports 16 sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 1551MB, 3152 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3177216 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
NetBSD sees it as:
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DBCA-204860>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 4645 MB, 10068 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 9514260 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
(i have installed it on a bigger drive recently, the errors were still
the same when i tried FreeBSD on both drives)
What is it that is restricting Free from booting while allowing netbsd
and openbsd to boot properly?
As much as I love NetBSD (shudder), I would really prefer to have
Free running on this machine.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Note: the bios on this machine, although updated is very limited to drive
specific configuration options so anything I do modify must be on the OS
end.
Paul Halliday.
http://dp.penix.org
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