FreeBSD-10 microdrive seagate ST1AT 4GB (VIA mbo) problem

[Berislav Purgar]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Well, if the disk itself is throwing errors that early in boot, you've
> got a much bigger problem.
>
> Sometimes these things do things with partition schemes and
> filesystems behind the scenes. Maybe the CF microcontroller in the
> card is confused?
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
>
> On 21 November 2013 10:28, Berislav Purgar <bpurgar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Berislav Purgar <bpurgar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Berislav Purgar <bpurgar at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello ..
> >>>
> >>> I have problem with microdrive and some CF cards on IGEL 3/4 compact
> thin
> >>> client ( http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/Igel/3210/index.shtml<
> http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/Igel/3210/index.shtml> ).
> >>> Problem is that FreeBSD cannot find microdrive or CF card to mount
> sytem /
> >>> on (but kernel is found and loaded from microdrive or CF card). I have
> one
> >>> CF card (sandisk ultra II) which boots but with some timeouts before.
> >>> FreeBSD identifies ide controller as :
> >>> atapci0: <VIA 8237 UDMA133 controller> port
> >>> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xe800-0xe80f at device 15.0 on
> pci0
> >>> ata0: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci0
> >>> ata1: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0
> >>>
> >>> Here are links to pictures of this problem.
> >>>
> >>> (aprobe:ata0:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00
> 00
> >>> 00
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://s24.postimg.org/al2k6qfzp/WP_20131120_003_1.jpg
> >>> http://s17.postimg.org/wm0s58kzz/WP_20131120_007_1.jpg
> >>> http://s23.postimg.org/5sp2k4trf/WP_20131120_006_1.jpg
> >>>
> >>> i tried same configuration on openbsd5.3 and everething si Ok ..same
> >>> controler on openbsd :
> >>> http://s12.postimg.org/bztc7w1zx/WP_20131120_001_1.jpg
> >>>
> >>>  Any suggestions ?
> >>>
> >>> Tnx
> >>> sorry for my English ..
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> for better debuging i use gateworks GW2345 board and found
> >> some interestingly ... if i destroy all partitions and partitions
> schemes
> >> on microdrive freebsd founds microdrive at boot and display info for
> it..
> >>
> >> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> >> ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
> >> ada0: <ST640211CF 3.07> CFA-0 device
> >> ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (PIO4, PIO 8192bytes)
> >> ada0: 3906MB (7999488 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 7936C)
> >> ada0: Previously was known as ad0
> >>
> >> full dmesg is here :
> >> http://pastebin.com/eWJ4XGyN
> >>
> >> but if i create MBR (or GPT) on microdrive and check as before on avila
> >> board i got timeouts and microdrive not found ?!
> >>
> >> ata_avila0: <Gateworks Avila IDE/CF Controller> on ixp0
> >> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on ata_avila0
> >> led_avila0: <Gateworks Avila Front Panel LED> on ixp0
> >> gpio_avila0: <Gateworks Avila GPIO driver> on ixp0
> >> gpioc0: <GPIO controller> on gpio_avila0
> >> gpiobus0: <GPIO bus> on gpio_avila0
> >> Timecounter "IXP4XX Timer" frequency 66666600 Hz quality 1000
> >> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> >> (aprobe0:ata0:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00
> 00
> >> 00
> >> (aprobe0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
> >> (aprobe0:ata0:0:0:0): Error 5, Retry was blocked
> >>
> >> full dmesg is here :
> >> http://pastebin.com/wPEexXKz
> >>
> >>
> >> http://pastebin.com/x5MinNQz
> >>
> >> why FreeBSD doesn't find microdrive when it has partitions or partition
> >> schemas ?
> >>
> >> Beri
> >>
> >
> >
> > nobody ?
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but i try openbsd and everything is OK . tomorow i plain to test linux just
to confirm these. i found same problems reported a few years ago that had
users on pfSense and FreeBSD with the microdrive but no solution .. so i
think that this problem is still here..
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-April/005835.html
 ..
http://marc.info/?l=pfsense-support&m=120665192812939

Beri