No booting - ata1-slave: FAILURE

[nbco]

On Sunday 17 October 2004 00:10, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> I just cvsup'd RELENG_5 and the system is not booting any more with
> the new kernel. It hangs at the ata identifying with the message:
>
> ata1-slave: FAILURE - ATAPI_IDENTIFY timed out
>
> I am using the GENERIC kernel, the only additional thing in there is
> atapicam. Maybe I just cvsup'd  at a bad time :-) ?

Hi there,
I have the same problem.  I have a T41, removing the cd drive will mean 
that you can boot cleanly.  I suffered from the same problem earlier 
this year.  I have had no problem with 5.3-BETA7.

It appears that this regression was caused by an ata driver commit 
before RELENG_5_3 was branched.

If you are going to roll sources back, roll them back to 08:00:00 UTC on 
16 Oct 2004, use the branch RELENG_5, but don't use the branch 
RELENG_5_3 until this gets sorted out.
.nbco