Hello,

Yesterday I upgraded the BIOS on a Dell Pentium 166Mhz system from
revision A05 to A06 and now when I boot NetBSD 1.3/i386 I see the
following error message (note: every time my system reboots it runs 
dmesg and does a diff on the previous dmesg output. the following is 
the only difference after upgrading to the new BIOS revision):

  Intel 82371FB IDE controller (PIIX) (IDE mass storage, interface 
    0x80, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured

Can someone tell me what this means? The BIOS was the only thing that
I updated yesterday -- nothing else was changed. 

In addition to the preceding error message, I noticed that there is now
a 10 second or so delay just after the following sequence of messages 
come out:

  wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
  wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <WDC AC33100H>
  wd0: 3020MB, 6136 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
  wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
  wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: <ST32140A>
  wd1: 2015MB, 4095 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
  wd1: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing

This delay never happened with the revision A05 BIOS. Could someone
familar with this part of the boot sequence explain to me what NetBSD
is trying to do at this point?

If it helps to know what all of the dmesg output looks like for my
system, here it is:

NetBSD 1.3 (CALLISTO) #1: Mon Feb 23 03:37:08 CST 1998
    bstark@callisto:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CALLISTO
cpu0: family 5 model 2 step c
cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) (586-class)
real mem  = 133820416
avail mem = 129462272
using 1659 buffers containing 6795264 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82437FX System Controller (TSC) (rev. 0x02)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: Intel 82371FB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX) (rev. 0x02)
Intel 82371FB IDE controller (PIIX) (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, 
  revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
S3 86C968-0 ("Vision968") (VGA display) at pci0 dev 15 function 0 not 
  configured
ahc0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0
ahc0: interrupting at irq 10
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
scsibus0 at ahc0 channel 0: 16 targets
ahc0: target 2 synchronous at 5.0MHz, offset = 0xf
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <PLEXTOR, CD-ROM PX-6XCS, 1.02> SCSI2 5/cdrom 
  removable
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 9: ESP, 1024 byte fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <WDC AC33100H>
wd0: 3020MB, 6136 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: <ST32140A>
wd1: 2015MB, 4095 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
wd1: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
sb: setting irq mask 04 failed, got 02
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
pms0 at pc0 irq 12
spkr0 at pc0 port 0x61
pc0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: 1.2MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 15 sec
joy0 at isa0 port 0x201
joy0: joystick connected
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: read port 0x203
sb1 at isapnp0 port 0x220/16,0x330/2,0x388/4 irq 5 drq 1,5
sb1: Creative SB AWE32 PnP Audio: dsp v4.13
audio0 at sb1
isapnp0: <Creative SB AWE32 PnP, PNPFFFF, , Reserved> port 0x100/1 not 
  configured
isapnp0: <Creative SB AWE32 PnP, CTL0021, , WaveTable> port 0x620/4 not 
  configured
isapnp0: <Creative SB AWE32 PnP, CTL7001, PNPB02F, Game> ignored; resource 
  conflict
isapnp0: <Creative SB AWE32 PnP, CTL0051, , StereoEnhance> port 0x100/1 not 
  configured
biomask 4440 netmask 4440 ttymask 54c2
wd1: no disk label
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs


Thanks,

Brian

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