On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:04:51PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote:
> I have an Elite P4S5A/DX+ motherboard with an SiS 5513 pciide on it
> (and a Pentium 4 and other stuff....).  FreeBSD -current calls this
> device a SiS 96X, and its pci identification is 5513 1039.
> 
> I just received a 1.6.1 install disk (thanks AUUG), and thought it was
> time to install NetBSD on this machine.  I have had a partition set
> aside waiting for a while.  :-)
> 
> I have run -current in the past on a different machine and was planning
> to update to -current.
> 
> When I boot from the 1.6.1 CD I get a hang with the last gasp being
> (retyping):
> 
> pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> 	type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x61
> 
> In the past, both FreeBSD and OpenBSD booted only when dma was
> disabled, but both now boot fine with dma enabled (that's -current for
> each, haven't tried -stable on either).
> 
> Is this a known problem, already fixed in NetBSD-current, or do I need
> to run with dma disabled?  Is the answer different for -current vs
> -stable?

This is probably fixed in current

> 
> I tried booting from NetBSD -current snapshot install floppies in
> April, but found no way in the kernel boot-time configuration to set
> the flag to disable dma, and otherwise had similar problems.
> 
> Is 20030305-1.6P the latest snapshot for i386?

Look at
ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/current/
It seems the last one that was compiled for i386 is 200307020000 (6 days
ago).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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