FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC - ATA not working

[Doug White]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Martin Nilsson wrote:

> I've burnd the RC CDROM and I'm unable to boot from it on my test boxes
> with Gateway motherbards.
>
> These machines are Single P3 Celeron 1.4GHz, Serverworks LE chipset
> ATA100 controller in CSB5.
> IBM DTLA-307030 (30GB 75GXP) as primary master.
> Benq 56x CDROM drive as secondary master.
> Both connected with proper ATA-100 cables.

Is it a CSB5 or ROSB4? The LE-IIIs shipped with ROSB4, which has bad DMA
bugs.

> The boot hangs after probing ad0 which is probed as ata0-master UDMA100.
> The light on the CDROM just stays on and the machine is frozen.

What happens if you connect the cdrom as a slave on the primary channel?


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