Intel 6300ESB SATA150 cannot find disk or boot under 6.3

Fri Oct 3 19:18:20 UTC 2008

Amazingly, this has been going on after a switch from 6.2 (which worked) 
to 6.3.
lots of people have reported it, and we accidentally fixed it (but we 
can't find documentation on what we fixed). 

it also doesn't work on 7.0 either.
here is a dmsg for a 6.3 one that accidentally works.
(i have a kernel that works), tech playing around with it months ago 
can't remember if he used 6.2 drivers or found an obscure patch.

Now that 5.5 is EOL, and we can't get ports for 5.5, it might be 
important for freebsd folks (in their spare time after 7.1 and 6.4 beta) 
to fix this.

or, at least to fix it in 6.4.

Yes, DELL 750, worked fine in 5.5 (lots of 5.5 systems I can't 
upgrade).  suggestions that we replace the (faulty?) hard disk 
controller cause lots of problems.
Its a different tech (more expensive) in the field that has to replace 
hardware, vs the one who can plug in a 6.3 CD rom and passively watch an 
automated upgrade.

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FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Mon Apr 28 20:18:31 EDT 2008
    root at someware
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2800.11-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf34  Stepping = 4
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x441d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNXT-ID,xTPR>
  Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory  = 1073479680 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1045966848 (997 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE750   >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 3
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard
acpi0: <DELL PE750> on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 3.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.2> port 0xece0-0xecff mem 0xfe3e0000-0xfe3fffff irq 18 at device 1.0 on pci1
em0: Ethernet address: 00:11:43:cd:36:d8
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.2> port 0xdcc0-0xdcff mem 0xfe1e0000-0xfe1fffff,0xfe1c0000-0xfe1dffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2
em1: Ethernet address: 00:30:64:05:ef:58
em2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.2> port 0xdc80-0xdcbf mem 0xfe1a0000-0xfe1bffff,0xfe180000-0xfe19ffff irq 25 at device 1.1 on pci2
em2: Ethernet address: 00:30:64:05:ef:59
uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xbce0-0xbcff irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xbcc0-0xbcdf irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 29.4 (no driver attached)
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
em3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.7.2> port 0xccc0-0xccff mem 0xfdee0000-0xfdefffff irq 21 at device 2.0 on pci3
em3: Ethernet address: 00:11:43:cd:36:d9
pci3: <display, VGA> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfea0-0xfeaf at device 31.2 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff,0xc9000-0xc9fff,0xec000-0xeffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ipfw2 initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E/K.9A> at ata0-master UDMA33
ad2: 38146MB <Seagate ST340014AS 8.05> at ata1-master SATA150
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
bridge0: Ethernet address: aa:29:32:48:bd:5a
wan: link state changed to UP
con0: link state changed to UP

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