Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:20 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> I started this thread on May 31 of last year: >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-May/085923.html >>> >>> The problem remains as of: >>> >>> FreeBSD fugu.marcuscom.com 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #12: Sun Mar >>> 1 16:10:52 EST 2009 >>> gnome_at_fugu.marcuscom.com:/space/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU i386 >>> >>> The only way I can boot this system is to hack in the ATA code from >>> April 9, 2008. I would love just to be able to boot this guy on a >>> default -CURRENT. >> 1) If I understand right, you had working system on April 9, 2008 and >> not working on May 31, 2008 and now. Have you tried to narrow down that >> interval between working and not working system to find exact point of >> breakage? I see no documented changes in Promise support there in CVS >> log, but for example, on Apr 10 2008 I see some related changes >> unmentioned in commit message. > > The April 9 date is the documented date of last working. It was the > commit on April 10 13:05:05 that broken things: > > "Add experimental support for SATA Port Multipliers > > Support is working on the Silicon Image SiI3124/3132. > Support is working on some AHCI chips but far from all. > > Remember this is WIP, so test reports and (constructive) suggestions are welcome!" You can try to comment out /* set portmultiplier port */ ATA_OUTB(ctlr->r_res2, 0x4e8 + (ch->unit << 8), port & 0x0f); inside ata_promise_mio_command(). Don't know if there is some problem with it, but it was added at that time and looks like it is at least not applicable for this type of controller. -- Alexander MotinReceived on Mon Mar 02 2009 - 21:31:25 UTC
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