5-CURRENT on an IBM NAS 300G.

[Carl Makin]

Hi Doug,

Doug White wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Carl Makin wrote:
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>Try booting -v and see how much farther it gets.  On my -current box,
>right after that is the pcibios/PIR probe, then the ACPI tree walk to
>attach devices.  Its possible the ACPI code in your system is fatally
>flawed.
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I think that's it.  Weirdly it occasionally booted right through but 
that was very rare.  Following the instructions on the FreeBSD ACPI 
website I dumped the code and recompiled it with iasl.  It found one 
warning about not returning a value to a function which a linux website 
noted which I fixed. 

With the new DSDT.asl installed it seems to boot on the second attempt.  
It just hung on the "Timecounter" line again, but a reset then a verbose 
boot and its booted all the way. <sigh>

Its now complaining of

can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE

It gives the same error message for PCI1 and PCI2 as well.

>Have you tried upgrading the BIOS?
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Not yet.  I'll look and see if that is possible.  One problem is that 
this box is designed and sold by IBM to run win2k as a NAS.  IMNSHO it 
would be criminally negligent to run Win2K as a NAS so we've never put 
it into production.  It's not supported like a normal PC and the IBM 
website is pretty bad.

>>What I'm really after is a way of switching the fans to low speed as at
>>normal speed they are far too lound for a workgroup situation.
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>Interesting the BIOS wouldn't manage it in non-ACPI mode.
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The fan speeds change, obviously under bios control, but the bios 
settings expose no options to modify them.

I was hoping to use it as my desktop machine as it has dual 1.1Ghz PIII 
Xeons but but it's way too noisy, so if I can't get the fan speeds 
lowered then I guess I'll just disable ACPI and install it into the 
computer room as a 5.2 test box. :)

Thanks,

Carl.