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Re: DEC PWS500au (MiataGL) EIDE Issues



DId you have any further thoughts on this?

Thanks!
- Alex

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 11:06 AM Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:


> On May 28, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay!
>
> So, I booted the no-cypide kernel, and it cleared the "stray isa irq" messages. However, I don't seem to be able to do anything with the CD-ROM (stock Toshiba XM-6302b) attached as the secondary slave device.

Yup, ok, so we’re definitely seeing a more fundamental problem.  I know this used to work, but obviously something went haywire at some point.

I’m going to need to stare at the data sheet for a bit.  Stay tuned.

>
> Here are the boot logs:
>
> <snip>
> [   1.0000000] pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Contaq Microsystems 82C693 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x00)
> [   1.0000000] pciide0: primary channel ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?)
> [   1.0000000] pciide0: secondary channel ignored (other hardware responding at addresses)
> [   1.0000000] pciide1 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: Contaq Microsystems 82C693 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x00)
> [   1.0000000] pciide1: primary channel ignored (not responding; disabled or no drives?)
> [   1.0000000] pciide1: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
> [   1.0000000] atabus0 at pciide1 channel 1
> <snip>
> [   1.2316134] sd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <\007\007x\003xx\000x\000\000\004\000\000\0\000 7O BHD MR-X23, 0\000 7O BHD MR-X23, \002> disk removable
> [   1.3839553] uhub0 at usb0: NetBSD (0000) OHCI root hub (0000), class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> [   1.4974007] sd0(pciide1:1:0): Sense Error Code 0x60
> [   1.5538064] sd0: drive offline
> <snip>
>
> And, of course, the drive isn't available:
>
> -bash-5.1$ sudo fdisk sd0
> fdisk: cannot opendisk /dev/rsd0: Device not configured
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> - Alex
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 10:34 AM Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> > On May 18, 2021, at 9:15 PM, Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > I finally managed to get the system up, having found a different LSI 53c875 SCSI controller, that seems to work.
> >
> > Is there anything that I can do to test, easier, now that the system is working?
>
> Hey Alex, sorry I wasn’t able to work on this for a couple of days.
>
> So, I think the first experiment to try is: build a kernel without “cypide” … just use the fall-back “pciide” driver that will only do PIO, and see if that does any better.
>
> I built one for you:
>
>     http://www.netbsd.org/~thorpej/netbsd-alpha-9-2-GENERIC-no-cypide.gz
>
> Give that a whirl… if it results in a working drive (using the slower PIO modes), then that narrows down where we need to look.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- thorpej
>

-- thorpej



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