Hi,

 I've got a strange problem on my Mitac Laptop. I have a NEC Cardbus USB 
Controller off which I wish to hang a IDE H/D in an external chassis. 
When NetBSD boots, it find the controller, it finds the chassis (binds 
umass) and finds the IDE hard disk.

BUT, when I try to use the harddisk (/dev/sd0) I come across a few 
problems. With disklabel I can read the partition table and when I come 
to label the disk with a new one, disklabel just sits there for about 
20mins and then bombs out with a input/output error. After a reboot, the 
new partition table is on there, but as soon as I try to newfs the new 
slice... just hangs the session as soon as it starts to write the 
superblocks..

Problem happens with both 2.0 and 2.0.2

Any help is greatly appreciated...

here is my dmesg:

NetBSD 2.0.2 (MITAC) #2: Sun May 29 08:02:57 GMT 2005
total memory = 65148 KB
avail memory = 60148 KB
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd630
PCI BIOS rev. 2.1 found at 0xfd8e0
pcibios: config mechanism [1][x], special cycles [1][x], last bus 2
PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 found at 0xfd6a0, size 144 bytes (7 
entries)
pcibios_pir_init: bad IRQ table checksum
PCI BIOS has 8 Interrupt Routing table entries
PCI Exclusive IRQs: 9 10
PIR Entry 0:
        Bus: 0  Device: 23
                INTA: link 0x01 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 1:
        Bus: 0  Device: 20
                INTA: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 2:
        Bus: 0  Device: 24
                INTA: link 0x03 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 3:
        Bus: 1  Device: 3
                INTA: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 4:
        Bus: 1  Device: 2
                INTA: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 5:
        Bus: 0  Device: 25
                INTA: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 6:
        Bus: 0  Device: 22
                INTA: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
PIR Entry 7:
        Bus: 0  Device: 18
                INTA: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTB: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTC: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
                INTD: link 0x00 bitmap 0xdef8
pci_intr_fixup: no compatible PCI ICU found
Warning: unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing
PCI fixup examining 1060:e891
PCI fixup examining 1060:e886
PCI fixup examining 1060:673a
PCI fixup examining 1023:9660
PCI fixup examining 1013:1110
PCI bridge 0: primary 0, secondary 1, subordinate 1
PCI fixup examining 1013:1110
PCI bridge 1: primary 0, secondary 2, subordinate 2
PCI bus #2 is the last bus
[System BIOS Setting]-----------------------
  device vendor product
  register space address    size
--------------------------------------------
000:00:0 0x1060 0xe891
                [OK]
000:18:0 0x1060 0xe886
                [OK]
000:18:1 0x1060 0x673a
        10h mem  0xfe7e7ff0 0x00000010Resource conflict.

        14h mem  0xfe7e7ff0 0x00000010Resource conflict.

        18h mem  0xfe7e7ff0 0x00000010
                [NG]
000:22:0 0x1023 0x9660
        10h mem  0xfdc00000 0x00400000
        14h mem  0xfe7f0000 0x00010000
        18h mem  0xfe000000 0x00400000
                [OK]
000:23:0 0x1013 0x1110
        10h mem  0xfe7ec000 0x00001000
                [OK]
000:23:1 0x1013 0x1110
        10h mem  0xfe7e8000 0x00001000
                [OK]
--------------------------[  1 devices bogus]
 Physical memory end: 0x03ffc000
 PCI memory mapped I/O space start: 0x04000000
[PCIBIOS fixup stage]-----------------------
  device vendor product
  register space address    size
--------------------------------------------
000:00:0 0x1060 0xe891
                [OK]
000:18:0 0x1060 0xe886
                [OK]
000:18:1 0x1060 0x673a
        10h mem  0xfe7e7ff0 0x00000010
        14h mem  0x04000000 0x00000010
        18h mem  0x04000010 0x00000010
        1ch mem  0xfe7e7ff0 0x00000010
                [OK]
000:22:0 0x1023 0x9660
        10h mem  0xfdc00000 0x00400000
        14h mem  0xfe7f0000 0x00010000
        18h mem  0xfe000000 0x00400000
                [OK]
000:23:0 0x1013 0x1110
        10h mem  0xfe7ec000 0x00001000
                [OK]
000:23:1 0x1013 0x1110
        10h mem  0xfe7e8000 0x00001000
                [OK]
--------------------------[  0 devices bogus]
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX (586-class), 232.54 MHz, id 0x543
cpu0: features 8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
cpu0: features 8001bf<MMX>
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: United Microelectronics UM8891N (rev. 0xb0)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0
pcib0: United Microelectronics product 0xe886 (rev. 0xb2)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 18 function 1
pciide0: United Microelectronics UM8886BF (rev. 0x10)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present, but unused (no driver support)
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
atabus0 at pciide0 channel 0
pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
pciide0: secondary channel ignored (not responding; disabled or no 
drives?)
vga0 at pci0 dev 22 function 0: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660 (rev. 
0xd3)
wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
cbb0 at pci0 dev 23 function 0: Cirrus Logic CL-PD6832 PCI-CardBus 
Bridge (rev. 0xc1)
cbb1 at pci0 dev 23 function 1: Cirrus Logic CL-PD6832 PCI-CardBus 
Bridge (rev. 0xc1)
isa0 at pcib0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
isapnp0: read port 0x203
isapnp0: <ESS ES1878 Plug and Play AudioD, ESS0004, , > port 0x800/8 not 
configured
ess0 at isapnp0 port 0x220/16,0x388/4,0x330/2 irq 5 drq 1,0
ess0:: ESS Technology ES1878 [version 0x688b]
ess0: audio1 interrupting at irq 5
audio0 at ess0: half duplex, mmap, independent
opl at ess0 not configured
isapnp0: <ESS ES1878 Plug and Play AudioD, ESS0005, , > port 0x201/1 not 
configured
cbb0: interrupting at irq 9
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
cbb1: interrupting at irq 9
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 2 device 0
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
apm0 at mainbus0: Power Management spec V1.2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
ohci0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0: NEC USB Host Controller (rev. 0x41)
ohci0: interrupting at 9
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0
pcmcia1: CIS version PC Card Standard 5.0
pcmcia1: CIS info: Xircom, CreditCard 10/100, CE3-10/100, 1.00
pcmcia1: Manufacturer code 0x105, product 0x10a
pcmcia1: function 0: network adapter, ccr addr 800 mask 3
pcmcia1: function 0, config table entry 1: I/O card; irq mask 8ebc; 
iomask 4, iospace 0-f; memspace 0-fff; mwait_required rdybsy_active io8 
io16 irqpulse irqlevel powerdown
xi0 at pcmcia1 function 0: Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Ethernet
xi0: Ethernet address 00:80:c7:52:a5:26
ukphy0 at xi0 phy 0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x00a0be, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ukphy1 at xi0 phy 16: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy1: OUI 0x00a0be, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 1: NEC USB Host Controller (rev. 0x41)
ohci1: interrupting at 9
ohci1: OHCI version 1.0
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <ST92011A>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 19077 MB, 38760 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 39070080 
sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
ehci0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 2: NEC USB Host Controller (rev. 0x02)
ehci0: interrupting at 9
ehci0: EHCI version 0.95
ehci0: companion controllers, 3 ports each: ohci0 ohci1
usb2 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: NEC EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
umass0 at uhub2 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. ATAPI-6 Bridge Controller, rev 
2.00/0.01, addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <ST32122A, , 0.42> disk fixed
sd0: fabricating a geometry
sd0: 2014 MB, 2014 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4124737 
sectors
sd0: fabricating a geometry