Re: kern/24094 (pciide broken on Compaq Armada 1110)

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/24094; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: swilde%sha-bang.de@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/24094 (pciide broken on Compaq Armada 1110)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:53:21 +0000

 On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:30:03PM +0000, Sascha Wilde wrote:
  >  Ok, test done: I did build a boiled down NetBSD 5 kernel with PCI
  >  support (configuration attached for reference) and booted my Armada from
  >  it -- with the old catastrophic results: the symptoms are exactly the
  >  same as described in my original six year old report...  :-(
 
 Oog. Sorry to hear that...
 
  >  sascha, facing the tedious task of reinstalling the prehistoric
  >  monster -- wondering if any more recent version of netbsd than 1.6 might
  >  be appropriate...
 
 There's a distinct possibility that you might be able to just rewrite
 the partition table/disklabel, fsck using an alternate superblock, and
 then patch up whatever else got trashed, depending on just how far it
 went.
 
 I wouldn't think it would have got much further than attempting to
 read the partition table and disklabel, and it's unreasonable for it
 to have trashed anything it didn't try reading. Then again, it's
 unreasonable for this to happen at all, so who knows... :-/
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost