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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:25:47 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
Cc:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ultra5/cmd646 hang
Message-ID:  <20031212032547.GA8974@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031212031736.GB64340@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> <20031212031736.GB64340@seekingfire.com>

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:17:36PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> 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=3D0) and boot
> > > >your new kernel.  Slow as hell, but it works.
> > >=20
> > > Okay, I tried that.  It did not print out the
> > >    ata3: resetting devices ..
> > > message, but it died with a panic:
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> For the record and archives:
>=20
> 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
> :-)

I forwarded the commit message that fixed this problem a few weeks ago.

Kris
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