Heads up: checking in change to ata-card.c

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Xu [mailto:davidxu at freebsd.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:30 PM
> To: Soeren Schmidt; Bill Paul
> Cc: imp at freebsd.org; current at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Heads up: checking in change to ata-card.c
> 
> 
> I have another problem different with Bill Paul's.
> I have a Tyan Tiger 230T dual CPU MB. On second IDE,
> there are MITSUBISHI 52X CDROM as master and a SONY
> CD-RW CRX140E 8X/4X/32X as slave. FreeBSD never got
> them to work, while MS Windows and Linux and NetBSD and
> OpenBSD all work well with these devices. FreeBSD always
> stuck at "MODE SENSE BIG", this sucks, I must disable
> second IDE in BIOS before booting into FreeBSD and
> reenable it before booting into another OS. I changed
> configuration several times, both DMA and PIO mode don't
> work, it works only when CR-RW is pulled.
> 
> David Xu

I started seeing this behavior also, but it started when I swapped drives from a dead Via dual chipset board machine (MSI 694D Pro, I think) into an athlon machine with an Asus A7Vsomething. I can get correct model numbers, etc. if helpful. This is a 4.8-RELEASE installation. I had to reboot the first time with an old 4.4 GENERIC leftover from installation, and I saw no errors, but after compiling a uniprocessor kernel I started seeing the above behavior. Although, I left it for awhile and eventually the machine does boot after about 30 of the MODE_SENSE_BIG, resetting devices lines.

-Will