ultra5/cmd646 hang

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:17:36PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:05:57PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:26:12PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > At 9:54 AM +0100 11/18/03, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > >Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> writes:
> > > >  > Well, for what it's worth I hit something vaguely similar
> > > >  > on my Ultra-10 [...]
> > > >  > Unfortunately, I then mistakenly blew away my working
> > > >  > kernel, so right now I can't boot up the machine at all.  [...]
> > > >
> > > >Just disable DMA in the loader (set hw.ata.ata_dma=0) and boot
> > > >your new kernel.  Slow as hell, but it works.
> > > 
> > > Okay, I tried that.  It did not print out the
> > >    ata3: resetting devices ..
> > > message, but it died with a panic:
> > 
> > I'm also having the same problem on an Ultra 5 (see the archives for
> > details if you're interested). If you chose to reinstall and want to
> > avoid this issue until it gets cleared up, avoid source newer than Oct
> > 29 which (from sombody else's posting) is the last date that appears to
> > boot properly by failing back to PIO mode.
> 
> For the record and archives:
> 
> I built a new current with today's sources and it boots fine. Somewhere
> between early-to-mid November and now someone must've fixed the problem
> :-)

I forwarded the commit message that fixed this problem a few weeks ago.

Kris
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