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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:17:36 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ultra5/cmd646 hang
Message-ID:  <20031212031736.GB64340@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031118210557.X16032@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20031114105853.A92204@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031114134001.D92204@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031117130205.R22102@carver.gumbysoft.com> <p06002021bbdf0a93b762@[128.113.24.47]> <xzpbrraxdii.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p0600202cbbe04a3aa321@[128.113.24.47]> <20031118210557.X16032@seekingfire.com>

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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:05:57PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:26:12PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 9:54 AM +0100 11/18/03, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > >Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> > >  > Well, for what it's worth I hit something vaguely similar
> > >  > on my Ultra-10 [...]
> > >  > Unfortunately, I then mistakenly blew away my working
> > >  > kernel, so right now I can't boot up the machine at all.  [...]
> > >
> > >Just disable DMA in the loader (set hw.ata.ata_dma=0) and boot
> > >your new kernel.  Slow as hell, but it works.
> > 
> > Okay, I tried that.  It did not print out the
> >    ata3: resetting devices ..
> > message, but it died with a panic:
> 
> I'm also having the same problem on an Ultra 5 (see the archives for
> details if you're interested). If you chose to reinstall and want to
> avoid this issue until it gets cleared up, avoid source newer than Oct
> 29 which (from sombody else's posting) is the last date that appears to
> boot properly by failing back to PIO mode.

For the record and archives:

I built a new current with today's sources and it boots fine. Somewhere
between early-to-mid November and now someone must've fixed the problem
:-)

-T


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 Everything else is just overhead and underwear."
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