Re: 5-CURRENT on an IBM NAS 300G.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Carl Makin wrote:

> >Try booting -v and see how much farther it gets.  On my -current box,
> >right after that is the pcibios/PIR probe, then the ACPI tree walk to
> >attach devices.  Its possible the ACPI code in your system is fatally
> >flawed.
> >
> I think that's it.  Weirdly it occasionally booted right through but
> that was very rare.  Following the instructions on the FreeBSD ACPI
> website I dumped the code and recompiled it with iasl.  It found one
> warning about not returning a value to a function which a linux website
> noted which I fixed.
>
> With the new DSDT.asl installed it seems to boot on the second attempt.
> It just hung on the "Timecounter" line again, but a reset then a verbose
> boot and its booted all the way. <sigh>

neat.

> Its now complaining of
>
> can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE
>
> It gives the same error message for PCI1 and PCI2 as well.

My X335 does this, so its some wierdness in the ACPI that I didn't want to
spend time debugging. Didn't seem to cause any major harm.

> >Have you tried upgrading the BIOS?
> >
> >
> Not yet.  I'll look and see if that is possible.  One problem is that
> this box is designed and sold by IBM to run win2k as a NAS.  IMNSHO it
> would be criminally negligent to run Win2K as a NAS so we've never put
> it into production.  It's not supported like a normal PC and the IBM
> website is pretty bad.

heh. :)

> I was hoping to use it as my desktop machine as it has dual 1.1Ghz PIII
> Xeons but but it's way too noisy, so if I can't get the fan speeds
> lowered then I guess I'll just disable ACPI and install it into the
> computer room as a 5.2 test box. :)

Good way to go. Xeons take massive airflow anyway, even if you could
control them you may not be able to reduce the speed to workable levels.

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