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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:40:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kent Palmkvist <kentp@isy.liu.se>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/43222: setrootbyname panic in 4.6
Message-ID:  <200211012240.gA1Me3CO070229@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR i386/43222; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kent Palmkvist <kentp@isy.liu.se>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, rrice@molecomputers.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/43222: setrootbyname panic in 4.6
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 23:32:31 +0100

 Found a similar problem using a Intel Plato board (90 MHz Pentium board).
 
 The problem is caused by a detection problem of the RZ100? chip. There are 
 two places that checks for this chip:
 /sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.c driver called atapci (detects and tries to use the 
 chip).
 /sys/pci/pcisupport.c driver called ign (dummy routine to make sure the 
 chip is ignored).
 
 In the installation floppy kernel does the ign driver find the chip first. 
 The primary channel is then detected later as standard ata channels on the 
 isa-buss.
 
 In the installed GENERIC kernel does the atapci driver find the chip first. 
 The driver tries to attach the ata2 channel to the atapci0 controller, but 
 fails.
 
 The net result of these differences are that the user can boot the install 
 floppies, do a complete installation, but when booting from the newly 
 installed harddisk, the kernel panics. Early in the display (taken from a 
 boot -v) when booting from the harddisk:
 
 atapci0: <RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss possible> 
 port 0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 1.0 on pci0
 atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported
 atapci0: Busmastering DMA disabled
 ata2: iobase=0x01f0 altiobase=0x03f6 bmaddr=0x0000
 ata2: mask=03 ostat0=50 ostat2=00
 ata2-master: ATAPI 00 00
 ata2-slave: ATAPI 00 00
 ata2: mask=03 stat0=50 stat1=00
 ata2-master: ATA 01 a5
 ata2: devices=01
 ata2: at 0x1f0 on atapci0
 ata2: unable to allocate interrupt
 device_probe_and_attach: ata2 attach returned 6
 
 and at the end of the kernel boot:
 
 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
 Root mount failed: 6
 
 Manual root filesystem specification:
    <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
                         eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
    ?                  List valid disk boot devices
    <empty line>       Abort manual input
 
 mountroot>
 
 
 A quick and dirty solution to get the system to boot from the harddisk 
 (tested with 4.7-RELEASE) is to copy the kernel from the install floppies. 
 The following steps given below does this (got some problems with ad0s1a 
 not defined in the fixit /dev):
 
 Boot fixit CD
 mv /dev /dev.old && ln -s /dist/dev /dev
 mkdir /mnt/hd
 mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt/hd
 mkdir /mnt/floppy
 mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
 cp /mnt/floppy/kernel.gz /mnt/hd/
 rm /mnt/hd/kernel
 gunzip /mnt/hd/kernel.gz
 sync
 reboot
 
 
 A more permanent solution is to remove the recognition of the chip in 
 /sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.c. The following diff removes the RZ chip recognition:
 
 *** /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.c      Fri Nov  1 22:52:35 2002
 --- /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.c.orig Fri Nov  1 20:28:15 2002
 ***************
 *** 321,329 ****
       /* unsupported but known chipsets, generic DMA only */
        case 0x10001042:
        case 0x10011042:
 !       /* return "RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss 
 possible"; */
 !       return NULL;
 !
        case 0x06401095:
          return "CMD 640 ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss 
 possible";
 
 --- 321,328 ----
       /* unsupported but known chipsets, generic DMA only */
        case 0x10001042:
        case 0x10011042:
 !       return "RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss 
 possible";
 !
        case 0x06401095:
          return "CMD 640 ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss 
 possible";
 
 
 IMPORTANT NOTE: The RZ100? chips have serious bugs. Beware of the problems. 
 For more information see:
 http://mindprod.com/eideflaw.html
 
 
 best regards
 
 /Kent
 
 
 
 
 Kent Palmkvist
 Electronics Systems
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Linkoping University
 S-581 83 Linkoping
 Sweden
 
 Email: kentp@isy.liu.se
 Phone: +46 13 28 13 47
 Fax: +46 13 13 92 82
 www: http://www.es.isy.liu.se/staff/kentp
 

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