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

[Steven Wallace]

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

From: "Steven Wallace" <swallace at reply1.sdwmail.homeunix.org>
To: "'Andrey V. Elsukov'" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
Cc: <bug-followup 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 21:50:23 -0700

 I tried 7.0R and -current.
 
 With 7.0R, it does not work even with ACPI disabled.  It will boot and
 everything will say "cannot assign/allocate irq".
 
 On -current it does the same sata_reinit() thing, then dies with
 
 ...
 @kern/vfs_subr.c:338
 @kern/vfs_subr.c:365
 @fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c:197
 ...
 
 --- trap 0, .... --
 Lock order reversal:
   1st ... devfs @ kern/vfs_subr.c:2046
   2nd devfsmount @ fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c:201
 KDB: stack backtrace
 Db_trace_swlf_wrapper()
 Witnes_checkorder()
 _sx_xlock()
 Devfs_allocv()
 Devfs_root(0
 Set_rootvnode()
 Vfs_mountroot()
 Start_init()
 Fork_exit()
 Fork_trampoline()
 --- trap 0...
 Trying to mount root from ufs:...
 
 FYI, when you get the prompt, you can't use a USB keyboard.  You have to
 unplug the USB keyboards and plug in a PS2 one.
 
 BTW, what is the "WITNESS option enabled" and how do you turn it on/off?
 
 
 Steven