special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 06:15:15PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote..
> On Thursday 16 February 2006 17:52, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:23:11PM +0100, Sten Spans wrote..
> >
> > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > >On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote..
> > > >
> > > >>Folks,
> > > >>
> > > >>I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed
> > > >>related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L.  Test installs
> > > >>on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk
> > > >>fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't
> > > >>start or similar.  I got:
> > > >>
> > > >>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
> > > >>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.6: Unsupported relocation type
> > > >>1611047936
> > > >>in non-PLT relocations
> > > >>
> > > >>Observed on one DS10 and one DS10L.  The problem does not
> > > >>occur when you use a SCSI disk (which I typically do so I missed this
> > > >>before).
> > > >>
> > > >>Those of you who own this machine type and have a spare IDE drive,
> > > >>can you please test it?  Other reports for different system models
> > > >>are interesting too of course.
> > > >
> > > >A check of 5.5-BETA1 would be interesting too.
> > >
> > > I'll give it a go this weekend on my ds10
> > > (which also normally runs scsi :)
> >
> > Looks like it is not only DS10, my 164SX has similar probs as well.
> > 5.5-BETA1 and 6.1-BETA1 have it.  In total we have seen it on 2 DS10L,
> > one DS10 and a 164SX now.  SCSI is just fine.
> 
> What if you turn dma off via 'hw.ata.dma=0' in the loader?

Haven't tried yet.  DS10s are currently building BETA2

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