Is there anything connected to the second channel, if so what. Was this working in a previous version and if so which one and what was the verbose boot log from it? On 30/03/2015 19:07, bsdml wrote: > Hello Kevin, > > thanks for your clarification. Unfortunately I wasn't aware that the > T40 and *4's line used a SATA-PATA convertor and especially that was > going to clash with the new ATA stack in FreeBSD. Either OpenBSD and > NetBSD do work out of the box without any hassle, however I'd still > prefer to use FreeBSD on it as I have been using FreeBSD for about 8 > years now and I am very comfortable with it. > > The question at this point is, is there any hope to see this issue > resolved in the future? Or will I have to give up to the second ATA > channel in order to use FreeBSD? > > Regards, > Pietro Sammarco > > On 30/03/2015 06:17, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Zenker >> <wolfgang_at_lyxys.ka.sub.org <mailto:wolfgang_at_lyxys.ka.sub.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> * bsdml <pietro.bsdml_at_gmail.com <mailto:pietro.bsdml_at_gmail.com>> >> [150329 01:34]: >> > since I tried to install FreeBSD 10.1 on my recently purchased >> T40 I got >> > stuck at this annoying bootloop that says >> > "ATAPY_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 etc etc.. CAM >> status: >> > Command timeout". I have also tried latest 11-CURRENT snapshot >> and it >> > did not make any difference at all, it is affected from the same >> exact >> > bootloop. >> > [..] >> > It seems like there might be an issue with the CAM ATA stack >> that is >> > clashing with the PATA controller on my T40. >> >> I had the same problem on an ancient T42p. In my case, disabling the >> second ata channel allowed me to boot. >> >> I added the following line to /boot/device.hints: >> hint.ata.1.disabled="1" >> >> >> This is an annoying side-effect of the brain-dead SATA-PATA converter >> in that generation of ThinkPads. The Intel ICH6 chipset is SATA, but, >> for reasons known ot IBM/Lenovo, the systems used PATA drives! So >> they has a SATA-PATA converter built in that screwed up a LOT of >> things, mostly compromising performance and generating assorted log >> entries. Looks like that also is broken in modern ATA support if a >> drive is not present. >> >> This was always my biggest complaint with this laptop (T42) which I >> used for several years until I retired and returned to so it could be >> excessed legally as it was government property (and, I didn't really >> want it, even if I could have kept it). Not an awful system, but this >> one issue was really annoying to me. >> -- >> Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired >> E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com <mailto:rkoberman_at_gmail.com> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Mon Mar 30 2015 - 17:38:52 UTC
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