Subject: Re: progress on my Ultra/5
To: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
From: Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/04/2000 11:04:45
On 4 Oct 2000, Chris Jones wrote:

> So, thanks to a generous donation of a -current kernel (Thanks,
> Andrei!), I got NetBSD to boot on my Ultra/5.  However, it has trouble

Congratulations!
Finally I got my ultra-2 self-hosted, I think I can build everything now,
even ramdisk.fs(oh!, haven't tried though).

> with my pciide.  I didn't see this as a known problem on the
> port-sparc64 web page.
> 
> pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>         type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> 
> the above lines repeat 4 times, and then I get:
> 
> wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 0 ...
> 
> The above pattern repeats endlessly after the autoconfig code runs,
> when the kernel's first trying to access the disk.  The one break from
> the pattern is when it degrades from (I think) DMA 2 to PIO 4 mode.
> 
> Is this a known bug?  Is there something I can do about it?
> 

There is similar discussion in 'current-users' list. You'll get much more
from there. 

> Thanks in advance -- it's exciting to have BSD running on this box,
> even if it is brief.
> 
> Chris
--
	Andrey