kern/122368: [ata]: Failure to support SATA/PATA drives on 6.3 and 7.0 -- Nvidia nForce4 chipset

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

The following reply was made to PR kern/122368; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
To: swallace at reply1.sdwmail.homeunix.org
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
        =?UTF-8?B?J1PDuHJlbiBTY2htaWR0Jw==?= <sos at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: kern/122368: [ata]: Failure to support SATA/PATA drives on 6.3
 and 7.0 -- Nvidia nForce4 chipset
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:08:32 +0400

 Steven Wallace wrote:
 > I applied your current and previous patches to the 6.3-STABLE kernel.
 > Your latest patch had no apparent effect.
 > I did not see the sata_phy_reset messages.
 
 These messages will be shown only for SATA and when it will be 
 something wrong when resetting is doing.
 
 > Attached is a complete dmesg output from the 6.2R kernel.  It is a good boot
 > from a powercycle output.  After running 6.3, I reran 6.2R and tried to take
 > notice of differences from the scrollback (anybody know how to increase size
 > of scrollback since the first portion of ACPI initialization I can't check?)
 
 Rebuild you kernel with option:
 options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=1000
 
 > On a good boot, you will see the ata_nvida_status message.  The code
 > indicates that "register boot attach to be run when interrupts are enabled"
 > via ata_delayed_attach.  My guess is ACPI is not routing the interrupts
 > properly and no interrupts are getting through to the ata devices (hence no
 > ata_nvidia_status messages).  Perhaps the code will try a ata_reinit() to
 > see if it can get it working one more time before giving up.
 
 Did you try CURRENT snapshot?
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov