I am trying to install free on this machine, as I have no
floppy/cdrom for this box I am restricted to installing via another laptop
then swapping the drive back.
Boot goes fine until:
ata0-master: no status, reselecting device
ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00
ata0-master: ata identify failed
I put the drive back into the other laptop and added hw.ata.ata_dma="0"
and retried, again recieving the same errors.
For fun I tried NetBSD and the machine boots fine. For reference the drive
appears as:
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0:(IBM-DDLA-21620)
wd0: drive supports 16 sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 1551MB, 3152 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3177216 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
What is it that is restricting Free from booting while allowing netbsd to
boot properly?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Note: the bios on this machine, although updated is very limited to drive
specific configuration options so anything I do modify must be on the OS
end.
Thanks.
Paul Halliday.
http://dp.penix.org
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