From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 24 8:24:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B57F37B4CF for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13zLdu-000FBd-00; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:24:06 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAOGN6W00987; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:23:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:23:06 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: Drew Sanford , stable@freebsd.org, "Rene 'Canyon' de Vries" Subject: Re: Update - 4.2 install hangs while booting Message-ID: <20001124172306.C517@freebie.demon.nl> References: <3A1E91B6.3040807@planetwe.com> <20001124161240.D41148@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001124161240.D41148@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:12:40PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:12:40PM +0000, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:05:10AM -0600, Drew Sanford wrote: > > I have had a chance to play with 4.2 now, having gotten it installed, > > and narrowed down some of the hardware problems that it could be. Here's > > a system rundown: > > > > Asus A7V rev 1.02; Duron 800 > > SBLive > > NetGear FA 310Tx > > 45 GB ATA100 IBM Deskstar as Master on Primary ATA100 > > 32x ATAPI cd rom drive as Slave on Primary UDM33/66 > > > > When I boot the system with the Parallel port enabled in the bios, > > regardless of the specified IRQ or IO port in bios, I get this: > > > > ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold > > ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP > > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: > > ppbus0: MLC, PCL, PML > > lpt0: on ppbus0 > > lpt0: Interupt-driven port > > ppi0: on ppbus0 > > > > and here the system will hang, for at least 25 minutes. Beyond that I Will it also happen without printer or ppi? I've run the same A7V with a 700Mc Duron without ever seeing this. But we had no printer connected. > > figured it was usless to wait and see if anything would happen, and I > > lost pateince besides. Here's the dmesg output for the same system, same > > kernel, but with the parallel port disabled in the bios: > > I've had the same sort of thing happen to me sometimes on my A7V, that was > with 4.1-STABLE, I've not had a chance to install 4.2 yet due to FreeBSD > misdetecting my 20GB IBM drive as 2GB when using ATA66. Usually I found > that just resetting the box after it hung there caused it to work on the > next boot. > > > lauasanf@colossus(~)$ dmesg > > ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > > ata1-slave: identify failed > > ata1-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > > ata1-master: identify failed > > ad4: 43979MB [89355/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 > > I get the same errors as these too (although sometimes they don't appear). > I think that is just a "feature" of the Promise controller as it could > be that which makes Windows pause ages while booting. As we have a ATA66 disk we have it on the ATA66 controller, not on the ATA100. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message