Re: problems with standard A4K IDE interface

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 08:55:53AM +0100, John Vrolijk wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Yesterday I connected the drive using a full cable (with pin 1) and
> after some very long waiting time and numerous warm reset's (CTRL-A-A)
> I managed to get my A4K up 3 times. However, when I started NetBSD in order 
> to try and install it (I've got no NetBSD at the moment), it still said
> 'reset failed', even with a full cable.

You should see a message like this during the NetBSD startup:

        Calibrating delay loop... 21/1024 us

What is the value reported?

> The disk is a WD Caviar one.
> 
> Do I have hardware problems ? How can I check this ?
> My A4K is a second hand one. I recently 
> purchased it and bought an Apollo 4060 to go along with it.

Uhm... do you have a MMU equipped CPU other than the Apollo board? In this
case you should try to boot with the other CPU, and compare.

Regards,
        -is

        -is