Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:11:01 -0500 From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@net-noise.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: LS-120 support? Message-ID: <EBEDLIEDDOIIJDGEKFFDKEAACBAA.jshenry@net-noise.com>
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Hello everyone, I have a bit of mystery on my hands. I received a free LS-120 drive that appears to work. I connected it to a Win2k box where it was recognized by the BIOS. Win2k installed a driver for it, and was able to read, at least, normal 1.44MB floppies (I haven't tested LS-120 superdisks yet). Ok, so it seems to work on a newer system, with Win2k. I then plugged it into my BSD machine, which is running on a PR440FX main board (out of a Compaq server), which does *not* have BIOS support for the drive. (only the CDROM is detected at boot time) No problem, this board doesn't recognize a few other things that work just dandy under FreeBSD. I add in the option "device atapifd" to my kernel config and rebuild the kernel. All goes well, except that now when I boot, I get a few seconds pause, then the error message "ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded". Needless to say, it doesn't appear to be detected. The drive is connected as the slave disk, with a CD-ROM connected as the master. Both, theoretically, should be using DMA, and the CDROM in fact is reported as using WDMA2. (the CD-ROM is detected and functional). Ordinarily, I would suspect the lack of BIOS support, but I know that isn't the case. This main board has a SCSI host adapter, and the PR440FX boards are a bit strange in that they will refuse to boot from SCSI if an ATA (not ATAPI) drive is detected. The only way to avoid this is to either 1) unplug the ATA drive or, 2) tell the BIOS there is no drive at that location. I usually use 2, and the BIOS obligingly fails to see it - but FreeBSD does. Any ideas on how to get this drive working? It might be handy if I could get it running under FreeBSD. Thanks, Seth Henry jshenry@net-noise.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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