Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:13:13 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 ATA on an old laptop failing Message-ID: <20000410151313.A21684@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20000409164636.C18060@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 04:46:36PM -0400 References: <20000409164636.C18060@pir.net>
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Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> probably said: > Another suggestion is a custom kernel build that uses wd and install > with that. I did this on my 4.0-STABLE machine (hoping that 4.0-R and > stable havn't changed enough for it to matter). It detected the > cntroller and the disk as I'd expect, but when I try to partition > the disk with sysinstall it complains that there are no disks ... After being pointed in another direction in private mail, I used the 3.4-PAO install to boostrap a 4.0 install by directly NFS mounting the 4.0-R dist and using install.sh and munging a few other things manually. I compiled a wdc kernel on another 4.0 box, put that in place and with a few more tweaks the NEC is now running 4.0-STABLE. Seems to work fine with wdc. I compiled an ATA kernel, installed that as kernel.ata and tried to boot from it. I got; ad0: 320MB <IBM-H2344-A4> [915/15/49] at ata0-master using BIOSPIO Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ad0: HARD ERROR blk# 0 status=51 error=04 ad0: reading primary partition stable: error reading fsbn 0 If I'm reading this correctly, it's using pio mode and failing well before it would read /etc/rc, anyway. I reboot using the wdc kernel, all works again. The ata driver really doesn't like this controller. Any further debugging I can do to help get this fixed ? On a more positive note, pcmcia stuff on this laptop seems to work great (although I'm missing some of the features PAO had that havn't made it into 4.0, mostly the /etc/pccard_ether* handling) and I've trivially reduced the minimal installation down to 80Mb so it will be happy on this small disk (the box is intended to be a wavelan base station, eventually). Thanks, P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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