G5 support

[Rob Ballantyne]

These messages indicate the system is having trouble figuring out your
disk.  It could be a 'bad' disk but I thought I would mention that I had
similar problems (I didn't write them down so I can't absolutely confirm
they are true) when I tried a new SATA3/flash drive on my system.  It
appears that SATA3/flash is not supported currently (I would suspect no
hardware support).

Regards,
Rob

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 7:18 AM Michael Tuexen <
Michael.Tuexen at macmic.franken.de> wrote:

> > On 19. Jun 2018, at 15:44, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > If they don't boot, what errors do you get, if any? G5s on FreeBSD are
> usually boringly stable (mine are, certainly, currently running HEAD @
> r333927).
> For example the messages end in (typed from screen):
>
> (aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> (aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
> (aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): Retrying command, 0 more tries remain
> (aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): ATA_IDENTIFY. ACB: ec 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> (aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout
> (aprobe0:ata2:0:0:0): Error 5, retries exhausted
>
> which then is repeated a couple of times, and then the mountroot prompt
> shows up.
>
> I installed FreeBSD on this disk, compiled a kernel, compiled a couple of
> ports...
>
> Sometimes it boots... Any idea what could be wrong?
>
> Best regards
> Michael
> > -Nathan
> >
> > On 06/19/18 06:29, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I have a couple of Dual core PowerMacs (PowerMac7,3) and they run Mac
> OS fine.
> >> Installing FreeBSD head of a couple of days ago also works fine, but
> the systems
> >> * don't boot reliably
> >> * once they boot they run fine for a while and then they shutdown
> >> Since they are running fine under Mac OS, I don't think there is a
> hardware
> >> error. Are these issues known? Anything I could try to improve the
> situation?
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Michael
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