From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 5:44:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657E237B407 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dove.penix.org (dove.penix.org [216.144.7.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD10043E88 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Received: from dove.penix.org (dp@localhost.nls.net [127.0.0.1]) by dove.penix.org (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gALDi8mf014105 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:44:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Received: from localhost (dp@localhost) by dove.penix.org (8.12.6/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id gALDi8Cc014102 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:44:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dp@dove.penix.org) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:44:07 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Halliday To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hard drive woes.. (itronix) Message-ID: <20021121083825.W14089-100000@dove.penix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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 ------------------- "And so your god bungled his work deliberately, in order to tempt or test his creature - did he then not know, did he then not doubt what the result would be?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message