On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:18:24AM -0800, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 1: VIA Tech VT82C586A IDE Controller (rev. 0x06)
> pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
> pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL SE2.1A>
> wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
> wd0: 2014 MB, 4092 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4124736 sectors
> wd0: 32-bit data port
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
> pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
> pciide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
> VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller (USB serial bus, revision 0x02) at pcid
> boot device: wd0
> root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
> pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>         type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0

Looks like a problem with ATA timings. Try to boot
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/cobalt/netbsd15-noatadma.gz
which will almost certainly work. Then check the archives
for this list to see how to compile a custom kernel with
pciide DMA disabled. Then you can start debugging it..

> I imagine that the 'pcid' thing there was longer and actually said

That line is unimportant.


-- 
Soren