Re: ahcisata & pmp (was: Re: amd64-current (still?) won't boot (another one))

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:09:41PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:25:13PM +0200, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
 >  > >>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> writes:
 >  > 
 >  > I've just rebuilt an actual -current kernel yesterday and the problem
 >  > came back, now with a different drive number (now '0', formerly '15':
 >  > 
 >  >   [...]
 >  >   ahcisata0 channel 0: clearing WDCTL_RST failed for drive 0
 >  >   ahcisata0 channel 2: clearing WDCTL_RST failed for drive 0
 >  > 
 >  > ... and no disk found.
 > 
 > I have run into this same problem, on today's -current, with a machine
 > that hadn't been updated in a while.
 > 
 > Controller is an NVIDIA MCP65 ahcisata, which already has
 > AHCI_QUIRK_BADPMP. I tried adding AHCI_QUIRK_BADPMPRESET as well,
 > which of course didn't do anything.
 > 
 > Any other suggestions?

It is an ERR_DF rather than a timeout, FWIW.

Also, when it fails to find the disks the keyboard then does not work
at the root device prompt (even though it's a ps2 and not usb
keyboard), which is an additional nuisance.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost