Subject: Re: pciide question: wd0 as wd2 (Promise Ultra100)
To: Teemu Rinta-aho <teemu@rinta-aho.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/16/2002 21:59:40
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:54:58PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Michael Graff wrote:
> 
> > Does anything show up as wd0 or wd1, when wd2 appears?
> 
> Only the read attempts at wd0, which end in lost interrupts.
> 
> I tried again to boot this morning, and it seems that I am able
> to reproduce the error only if I take the power completely off the
> motherboard for some time. I guess some hw status registers keep the
> settings in memory for a while after halting the system but clear up after
> taking electricity completely off the motherboard.
> 
> I will try to force wd0 on pciide1 and see what happens. If it
> works then the problem is only the assigning of the value for
> X in wdX. Or what do you think?

No, the problem is most likely that the probe succeeds on 2 disks
before it probes the promise.
If there's nothing connected to the VIA, maybe you should just disable
it in BIOS ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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