Hi

I have an interesting problem with a promise SATA controller on a DFI 
G7V600-B motherboard running netbsd - current.

I have one drive connected to the motherboard sata controller and one 
to the promise sata controller.
On boot up the BIOS is configured to boot from the primary 
motherboard drive - I would assume wd0.

The boot process starts ok - booting off the drive on the 
motherboard, but it seems that once the promise controller is 
registered the primary drive on the promise controller seems to 
become mapped as the boot drive. Please see the messages below.

The boot process stalls with the kernel looking for files on the 
drive attached to the promise card - whereas the files are actually 
on the primary drive on the motherboard - where the root file system is.

What is the best way to resolve this ?

Kind regards
Mark

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NetBSD 3.99.19 (GENERIC) #2: Wed May 10 14:50:45 SAST 2006
       root@SQLSlave:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 503 MB
avail memory = 486 MB
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfb010
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: Intel (686-class), 3192.19 MHz, id 0xf43
cpu0: features bfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features bfebfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX>
cpu0: features bfebfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
cpu0: features2 649d<SSE3,MONITOR,DS-CPL,EST,CID,xTPR>
cpu0: features3 20100000<EM64T>
cpu0: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz"
cpu0: I-cache 12K uOp cache 8-way
cpu0: L2 cache 2 MB 64B/line 8-way
cpu0: ITLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu0: DTLB 4K/4M: 64 entries
cpu0: enabling thermal monitor 1 ... enabled.
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep disabled by BIOS
cpu0: 64 page colors
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82915P/G/GL Host (rev. 0x0e)
agp0 at pchb0: detected 7932k stolen memory
agp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel 82915G/GL Integrated Graphics 
Device (rev. 0x0e)
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0: Intel 82801FB/FR PCI Express Port #0 
(rev. 0x04)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1: Intel 82801FB/FR PCI Express Port #1 
(rev. 0x04)
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
skc0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: irq 5
skc0: interrupt moderation is 0 us
skc0: Marvell Yukon-2 EC rev. A3(0x2)
sk0 at skc0 port A: Ethernet address 00:01:29:17:78:f7
makphy0 at sk0 phy 0: Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY, rev. 2
makphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto
uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0: Intel 82801FB/FR USB UHCI Controller 
(rev. 0x04)
uhci0: interrupting at irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1: Intel 82801FB/FR USB UHCI Controller 
(rev. 0x04)
uhci1: interrupting at irq 11
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2: Intel 82801FB/FR USB UHCI Controller 
(rev. 0x04)
uhci2: interrupting at irq 10
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3: Intel 82801FB/FR USB UHCI Controller 
(rev. 0x04)
uhci3: interrupting at irq 9
usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7: Intel 82801FB/FR USB EHCI Controller 
(rev. 0x04)
ehci0: interrupting at irq 11
ehci0: BIOS has given up ownership
ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2 uhci3
usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub4 at usb4
uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
ppb2 at pci0 dev 30 function 0: Intel 82801BA Hub-PCI Bridge (rev. 0xd4)
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled
pdcsata0 at pci3 dev 12 function 0
pdcsata0: Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller (rev. 0x02)
pdcsata0: interrupting at irq 11
pdcsata0: bus-master DMA support present
atabus0 at pdcsata0 channel 0
atabus1 at pdcsata0 channel 1
atabus2 at pdcsata0 channel 2
atabus3 at pdcsata0 channel 3
wm0 at pci3 dev 13 function 0: Intel i82541PI 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 5
wm0: interrupting at irq 10
wm0: 32-bit 33MHz PCI bus
wm0: 64 word (6 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
wm0: Ethernet address 00:0e:0c:b2:cb:b8
igphy0 at wm0 phy 1: Intel IGP01E1000 Gigabit PHY, rev. 0
igphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto
Altera product 0x0002 (undefined subclass 0x00, revision 0x03) at 
pci3 dev 15 function 0 not configured
auich0 at pci0 dev 30 function 2: i82801FB (ICH6) AC-97 Audio
auich0: interrupting at irq 5
auich0: ac97: Avance Logic ALC655 codec; no 3D stereo
auich0: ac97: ext id 9c4<AC97_23,LDAC,SDAC,CDAC,SPDIF>
pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0
pcib0: Intel 82801FB LPC Interface Bridge (rev. 0x04)
piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2
piixide0: Intel 82801FB Serial ATA/Raid Controller (rev. 0x04)
piixide0: bus-master DMA support present
piixide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
piixide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
atabus4 at piixide0 channel 0
piixide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
piixide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
atabus5 at piixide0 channel 1
Intel 82801FB/FR SMBus Controller (SMBus serial bus, revision 0x04) 
at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43: AT Timer
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff
npx0: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
pcppi0: attached to attimer0
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
audio0 at auich0: full duplex, independent
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
wd0 at atabus3 drive 0: <WDC WD2500JD-00HBC0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 232 GB, 484521 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 488397168 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
wd0(pdcsata0:3:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA)
wd1 at atabus4 drive 0: <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 186 GB, 387621 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 390721968 sectors
wd1: 32-bit data port
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
wd1(piixide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA)
boot device: wd1
root on wd1a dumps on wd1b
root file system type: ffs
/dev/wd1a: file system not clean (fs_clean=4); please fsck(8)
/dev/wd1a: lost blocks 0 files 0
/dev/wd1e: file system not clean (fs_clean=4); please fsck(8)
/dev/wd1e: lost blocks 0 files 0