Re: 6.0-RC1 on Promise SX4060 (SETFEATURES FAILURE, READ timed out)

Hi, Mark,

On 11/4/05, Mark Kirkwood <markir_at_paradise.net.nz> wrote:
[snip]
> Tried Safe mode with 6.0-RC1 (no boot menu so had to read beastie.4th to
> figure out how to do that):
>
> (loader)
> set hint.acpi.0.disabled = 1
> set loader.acpi_disabled_by_user = 1
> set hint.apic.0.disabled = 1
> set hw.ata.ata_dma = 0
> set hw.ata.atapi_dma = 0
> set hw.ata.wc = 0
> #set hw.eisa_slots = 0 (forgot to type this one... I'll try again with
> it in)
>
> and get exactly the same errors.
>
> Also tried 5.4-RELEASE CD booted in safe mode:
>
> acd0: CDRW <CREATIVE CD-RW RW8439E/1R09> at ata1-master PIO4
> ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
> ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address = 0x8
> fault code            = supervisor write, page not present
> instruction pointer   = 0x8:0xc05db50d
> stack pointer         = 0x10:0xe6befc94
> frame pointer         = 0x10:0xe6befc9c
> code segment          = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                       = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags      = intrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process       = 5 (thread taskq)
> trap number           = 12
> panic: page fault

Oops, this is beyond my knowledge.  If you have a serial console line
to connect to your box, then do it and try to record the output of
"boot -v" would be helpful.

I have Cc'ed this mail to Soren (our ATA guru) and he may have some suggestions.

Cheers,