Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Haas <daveh@eskimo.com> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: matcd0: error during 2.0-950322-SNAP installation Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950411001509.602A-100000@eskimo.com>
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Hi there. I'm Dave Haas of Bainbridge Island, Washington. I've been using the 2/10 snapshot release of FreeBSD since around March 5th on another system and love it! When I wanted to install FreeBSD onto another system, I decided to try the 3/22 snapshot as it was said to include support for Intel EtherExpress 16 cards and improved sound card functionality. I ftp'd everything except src from ftp.cdrom.com:pub/FreeBSD/2.0-950322-SNAP, rawrote boot.flp and cpio.flp onto freshly formatted floppies, ran through the fdisk and disklabel procedures, and successfully proceeded until the initial boot from the hard disk. Then, when wd(0,a)/kernel went probing devices, the device matcd0: would eventually come up for probing and/or attachment, and the kernel would declare emphatically: matcd0: get_stat: after reading status byte, buss didn't go idle This would go on forever and head off into infinity until a hard reset was issued. So, after resetting the computer and doing a wd(0,a)/kernel -c to check out this problematic device. config> ls reveals: matcd int0xffffffff -1 -1 0x0 0 0 0x0 yes I tried to disable the device in the following ways: config> disable matcd config> di matcd config> disable matcd0 config> di matcd0 and was always told... No such device: matcd0 Invalid command or syntax. I also tried disabling, probing and attaching matcd0: with various creative and unusual spellings, thinking the device might have some weird tweak to its spelling. But always the device didn't exist. This would explain a great deal about why the kernel falls into an infinite loop when it tries to probe/attach to matcd0: After the disabling fiasco, I took the SoundBlaster 16 out of this machine, thinking that matcd0: was meant to represent the Matsushita cd-rom which attaches to these sound cards. I went through the entire procedure described above, and once again the same problem appeared. I am confused and prepared to start eating eggplant if that's what it takes to figure this out. So, the system I'm working with here is an i486DX2 66Mhz system with 16mb RAM, a 540mb Western Digital HD, a 540mb Quantum SCSI HD and a Toshiba XM3501B cd-rom (so far unrecognizable to FreeBSD because it's on a QLogic VLB SCSI controller card), a SoundBlaster 16 (presumably this is what's supposed to be attached to matcd0: ???), a Diamond SpeedStar Pro w 1mb RAM, and an Intel EtherExpress 16, Please give me guidance here so I can avoid the unpleasantries of eggplant. And thanks for putting together such a great un*x system! I recommend it to everyone. Dave Haas daveh@eskimo,com (206) 842-0679
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