Is this the SATA device? Sorry, I've not paid attention, but something in the 
title caught my attention.

We had a similar problem with another ASUS card, that had onboard SATA that just 
would not work.

It turns out the device wanted INTx emulation, which NetBSD (Didn't) support. 
But adding a patch to disable it, and it worked.

Something like:


siside.c:
         pciide_common_attach(sc, pa,
             pciide_lookup_product(pa->pa_id, pciide_sis_products));

         csr = pci_conf_read(pc, tag, PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG); //XX
         printf("%s: CSR = %x\n",//XX
                    sc->sc_wdcdev.sc_atac.atac_dev.dv_xname, csr);//XX

         if (csr & 0x400) { //XX
                 csr &= ~0x400; //XX
                 pci_conf_write(pc, tag, PCI_COMMAND_STATUS_REG, csr);//XX
                 printf("%s: attempting to drop INTx emulation\n",//XX
                            sc->sc_wdcdev.sc_atac.atac_dev.dv_xname);//XX
         }//XX



But, your problem is probably nothing to do with this and I just added noise, 
for which I apologise. :)

Lund




Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20050705003115.GA497@rezrov.net>, Christopher SEKIYA writes:
> 
>>On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:23:45AM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
>>>>type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>>>>siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
>>>>type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>>
>>ioapic interrupts are not being routed correctly.
>>
>>You need to use an installation kernel that was compiled one of the following
>>ways:
>>
>>* with ioapic support commented out (suboptimal), or
>>* with ACPI and PCI_INTR_FIXUP options defined.
>>
>>Frank, now that the cdboot code is in-tree, would it make sense to turn on
>>the ACPI fixups in INSTALL and GENERIC?
>>-- 
> 
> 
> A few years ago, I saw exactly those symptoms from my CD drive if I did 
> have ACPI on.  Is that problem solved?  (I no longer have the machine 
> on which it was most reproducible.)
> 
> 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> 
> 
> 

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