Prebinding for DragonFly/FreeBSD-4

[Matthew Dillon]

    Was this conversation started on the list in the middle?  I seem to
    have missed the context.

    Could someone give a quick overview of the use of serial ATA in 
    FreeBSD/DragonFly?  I know that the ATA driver has gone through several
    incarnations.  We are using incarnation #2 in DragonFly (the same as
    4.8), while FreeBSD-5 is now on incarnation #3 (and having serious issues
    with it).  There was a lot of breakage between incarnation #1 (the wd
    drivers) and #2, and between #2 and #3, which to me means that we have
    to stick with what we have now and try to fix it verses, say, trying to
    import the new infrastructure from FreeBSD-5.

    The error below sounds like a DMA problem.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


:Ok I got the 9/22 snapshot
:and it fails to boot beyond the following:
:
:ad0: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-00DGA0> [77545/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSDMA
:WARNING: "ad" is usurping "ad"'s cdevsw[]
:ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
:ata0: resetting devices ..
:
:and then it hangs.  I am sure its the SATA or something related to the
:  NForce2 IDE controller causing this havoc.
:
:Dave
:On Sep 20, 2003, at 8:25 PM, David Rhodus wrote:
:
:>
:> On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 08:32 AM, David Leimbach wrote:
:>> I bet those things are relatively easy to fix... I just need to take 
:>> some time
:>> this weekend and actually see if I can run DFBSD with one of the 
:>> later snapshots.
:>>
:>> I still can't boot it here.
:>
:> Dave, is there a specific point in the boot process were
:> your getting hung up at ? Or is it just sitting spinning the
:> cd ?
:>
:> Also have you tried to boot a FreeBSD 4.8 cd ? Just to
:> check if something has gotten broken since we branched
:> off the cvs tree.
:>
:> -DR