Re: kern/37866: Thinkpad T61 disk doesn't work in AHCI mode

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/37866; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/37866: Thinkpad T61 disk doesn't work in AHCI mode
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:13:59 -0500

 smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost wrote:
 >> Description:
 >      Much of the time, if I boot my machine with the disk set in the
 >      BIOS to AHCI mode, it doesn't see the whole disk.  This causes
 >      errors in finding the NetBSD partition and the root partition,
 >      and if you persist you'll overwrite random parts of the disk,
 >      including things outside of what NetBSD should be touching.
 > 
 >      It is not 100% reproducbile.  In tests today, it didn't happen
 >      if I rebooted from power-off; it did happen if I warm-booted.
 >      This suggests a bug in the initialization code.
 
 Please confirm that you are running the latest firmware from Lenovo.
 
 Jared