On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:51:29PM -0800, Matt SF wrote:
> hi all--
> 
> recently obtained a dual-Intel Xeon Dell server (SC 1425) with 2x SATA 
> drives.  was hoping to run SMP and kernel-based RAID on it.
> 
> It boots fine with the Generic 2.0 kernel.  When I try the Generic MP 
> kernel, it can't make it past this section:
> 
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
> isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
> ioapic2: enabling
> ioapic1: enabling
> ioapic0: enabling
> Kernelized RAIDframe activated
> atapibus0 at atabus0: 2 targets
> piixide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>         type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E, , K.9A> cdrom removable
> piixide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>         type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> 
> ...this repeats, and also does the same for piixide1.

This is definitively an interrupt-routing issue.

> 
> looking in the archives I see some similar problems:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/07/06/0004.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/07/06/0005.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/07/06/0007.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/07/07/0000.html
> 
> I've tried these various kernel config suggestions but nothing seems to 
> change.  In fact I can't just comment-out ACPI_ACTIVATE_DEV as in message 
> 0007 above, since in the 2.0 Generic kernel config, it is already 
> commented out :) 

Which one ?
In GENERIC.ACPI, did you try uncommenting ACPI_PCI_FIXUP ?
You could also try building a kernel using the pcibios(4) options.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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