Subject: Re: Another IDE disk that doesn't probe any more
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/12/1999 11:15:42
On Apr 11, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote
> I just tried to install 1.4_ALPHA on a 2.5" IBM UDMA IDE disk which was
> previously happily running 1.3H in a Shark.
> 
> The machine I'm trying to install on has a motherboard with Intel TX
> chipset, and has been running fine with a 6G Seagate Medallist.  I
> moved the Seagate to the secondary IDE channel, put the IBM drive on
> the primary channel, made sure both were on in the BIOS, made sure the
> BIOS could see both disks -- it can -- and booted the install floppy.
> 
> The install floppy pauses for a long time after printing out the "pciide0:0:
> UDMA capable" message and then prints out that it found no drives and is
> disabling channel 0.  It then finds the Seagate drive on channel 1 just fine
> and attaches it as wd0.
> 
> The IBM drive *is* jumpered as "master" and the BIOS finds it and correclty
> determines its size (5.2GB) and its transfer modes (PIO4, UDMA2).  But
> NetBSD just doesn't see it at all; if I put the Seagate on that channel
> it still probes and attaches fine.
> 
> Any ideas?  What can I do to help debug?
> 

I just checked in a fix for this to the branch, can you compile a kernel and
try it out ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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