On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > * bsdml <pietro.bs...@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: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
