On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:38, bsdml <pietro.bsdml_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey wolfgang, > > > > thanks for getting back to me. Adding hint.ata.1.disabled="1" in > /boot/device.hints indeed did the trick and allowed me to boot both 10.1 > and 11-CURRENT, however this workaround has temporary solved my problem but > brings up to another headache. I have planned to get a bay caddy and swap > the cdrom drive with a 7.200 rpm SATA hdd, but doing this way disabling the > second SATA channel I will be unable to achieve such a thing. > > > > Is there a chance that the bay caddy ATA will work without the need to > disable the second ATA channel? > > Has a bug been filed for this issue? > > It's not been fixed and is pretty much unfixable, but it is also only annoying. The problem shows up when because the SATA-PATA converter shows the second drive as present whether it is or not. This leads the driver to try to probe the drive. The probe of the non-existant fails. (Gee, what a surprise!) If you don't have a second PATA drive in hte system, you need to disable this drive to prevent the probe. If you have a second drive, you only need to enable it and it works. At least my second drive did on my old T42. I can only hope the T40 is the same. IF you can get the PATA caddy, try finding a drive to plug in and see if it works at all. I suspect that it will. Be aware that old PATA drives are getting harder to come by. Most are pretty small, though I did find a 360 GB drive on Amazon. Good luck! -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.comReceived on Mon Mar 30 2015 - 22:05:16 UTC
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