No disks usable on a P5NE MB

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:40:20 pm Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:03:47 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday, July 25, 2011 6:14:12 pm Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:49:44 +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:19:42 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> >> On Monday, July 25, 2011 2:42:59 pm Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> >>> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:09:04 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> >>> > On Sunday, July 24, 2011 9:48:02 am Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> >>> >> Hi,
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> Trying to upgrade one of my box from 8-stable to 9-current 
> >> lead
> >> >>> >> be to some important problems.
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> I'm have tried both from sources (svn buildworld etc.) and 
> >> from
> >> >>> >> memdisk provided by allbsd.org.
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> The motherboard is ASUS P5N-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 0901
> >> >>> >>
> >> >>> >> more informations here :
> >> >>> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/P5N-E.dmidecode.txt and
> >> >>> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/P5N-E.pciconv.txt
> >> >>> >
> >> >>> > Can you get a verbose dmesg from 8-stable?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> A boot -v from current memdisk is full of:
> >> >>> (aprobe0:ata0:0:1:0): ATAPI_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 
> >> 00
> >> >>> 00
> >> >>> 00 00 00
> >> >>> (aprobe0:ata0:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout
> >> >>>
> >> >>> here is the dmesg from boot -v on 8-stable:
> >> >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/P5NE-dmesg-8-stable.txt
> >> >>>
> >> >>> the xpt_config message disapear by removing sbp from the kernel
> >> >>
> >> >> It seems that you have an ATAPI floppy-drive device that 8 
> >> doesn't
> >> >> like:
> >> >>
> >> >> afd0: setting PIO3
> >> >> device_attach: afd0 attach returned 6
> >> >>
> >> >> Have you tried enabling ATA_CAM on 8 as a test, or removing the
> >> >> ATAPI floppy-drive as a test?
> >> >
> >> > Ok I'm dumb, I tested atapicam instead of ata_cam.
> >> >
> >> > I rebuild 8-stable kernel with ATA_CAM and it works (with lots of
> >> > warnings concerning the dvdrw).
> >> >
> >> > Here is the 8-stable dmesg with boot -v:
> >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/P5NE-dmesg-8-stable-ata_cam.txt
> >>
> >> New informations it doesn't work either on -CURRENT without ATA_CAM.
> >
> > Hmm, can you break into ddb on 9 and run 'show intrcnt' to see if you
> > have non-zero interrupt counts for IRQs 14 and 15?
> 
> 
> the result is:
> db> show intrcnt
> cpu0: timer    4510
> irq256: hdac0   1
> cpu3: timer     29
> cpu1: timer     3036
> cpu2: timer     31
> db>
> 
> I did break at the mountfrom> prompt
> If I break before I only have the cpu0 and irq256 entries.

Hmmm, is there any way you can build a 9 kernel without sound support (since 
that clutters up bootverbose) and capture a verbose dmesg, using a serial 
console or PXE booting to an NFS root of some sort?

-- 
John Baldwin