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Date:      Sun, 2 May 1999 12:38:31 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IDE DMA timeouts (was: Kernel won't boot from IDE disk)
Message-ID:  <19990502123831.Y80561@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990430104939.A89475@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:49:39AM -0500
References:  <19990429101043.A7734@symbion.srrc.usda.gov> <19990430140500.E80561@freebie.lemis.com> <19990430104939.A89475@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>

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On Friday, 30 April 1999 at 10:49:39 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:05:00PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 April 1999 at 10:10:43 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>>> I am doing a fresh installation. I installed the April 23, 1999 snapshot
>>> of STABLE and then cvsupped the CURRENT source (4.0 CURRENT). 
>>> ...
>>> Upon reboot, the system would hang after doing all of the probes. Below is some
>>> of the output that I got from a boot -v. I wrote this down on paper, so the
>>> formatting may be a little off.
>>>
>>> 	isa_compat: didn't get drq for wdc1
>>> ...
>>> 	changing root device to wd0s1a
>>>
>>> At this point it hangs. But if I press a key on the keyboard I then get:
>>> 	wd0s1: type 0xa5, start 0, end = 3173183, size 3173184
>>> 	wd0s1: C/H/S end 197/132/63 (1659041) != end 3173183: invalid
>>> 	start_init: trying /sbin/init
>>> 	wd0: interrupt timeout (status 50<rdy, seekdone > error 0)
>>> 	wd0: wdtimeout() DMA status 4
>>>
>>> This last two lines above are repeated 5x, then I get:
>>>
>>> 	wd0: Last time I say: interrupt timeout. Probably a portable PC.
>>>
>>> It is a desktop PC. I am not at the system now, so the following is from
>>> memory.  It is an AMI BIOS, a Western Digital 1.6 GB IDE drive on the
>>> primary IDE and a Mitsumi 4x CD-ROM drive on the secondary IDE.
>>
>> What's your chipset?  If it's an SiS 5591, I'd be interested in seeing
>> your complete dmesg output (preferably with a -v output).  You'll also
>> be able to get it to work by changing the wdc0 flags to eliminate DMA.
>
> The IDE controller chip is an Intel PIIX3 Bus Master IDE controller. I
> did turn off all flags, via boot -c, then deleting the flags. That did
> not help.

Ah, OK.  Not the problem I was afraid of.  Sorry, I can't help on this
one.

Greg
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