amd64/105207: nVidia MCP55 drivers fail to boot on 6.2B3 amd64

Melissa jenkins melissa-freebsd at littlebluecar.co.uk
Mon Nov 6 12:31:00 UTC 2006


>Number:         105207
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       nVidia MCP55 drivers fail to boot on 6.2B3 amd64
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 06 12:30:20 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Melissa jenkins
>Release:        6.2 Beta 3
>Organization:
Temeletry
>Environment:
Sun X220 M2 (Quad Athlon)
nVidia MCP 55, two SATA drives


>Description:
Console prints:
<snip cd stuff>
ata2-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire
ata3: CONNECT requested
ata3: CONNECTED
ata3: SATA connect ready time=0ms
ata3: sata_connect devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER>
ata3: CONNECT requested
ata3: CONNECT requested
ata3: CONNECT requested
ata3: CONNECT requested
ad4: 238471MB <HITACHI HDS7225SBSUN250G 0634NSTP3J V440A9CA> at ata2-master SATA 300
ad4: 488390625 sectors [484514C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue
ata3: CONNECT requested

and then hangs

It appears to have identified it as an nForce MCP55 chip

>How-To-Repeat:
Boot from any 6.2B3 amd64 CD.
>Fix:
System will boot and install using i386 CDs
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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