On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Stephane Lapie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > > Stephane Lapie wrote: > > Hello, > I am currently working with a Portwell NAR-5530 (network appliance > running off Intel hardware, can use regular HDs or CF cards as boot > device). > We want to use this at work for network appliances, but end up > bumping in the following problem : the kernel detects any device > plugged to the controller (SATA or CF) as UltraDMA-5, even though the > BIOS specifies otherwise clearly. > > You definitely should try to install recent snapshot on a CF > card and boot GENERIC.MP with APM disabled since that > box may mis-behave on interrupts without APCI. > Issue "bsd.mp -c" in UKC than "disable apm" and "exit". > > Since the Intel controller got two modes (Enhanced, which successfully > activates, but provokes issues with wd0 being recognized as UDMA5 ; > Compatible, which can't allocate properly an IRQ, probably due to an ACPI > issue), I tried booting with both modes : > Here is the dmesg trace for a bsd.mp kernel (I'll build a full fledged MP > based ramdisk once I confirm this works) in Enhanced mode :
You need to sendbug about this (including your researches) if you want this to be fixed in tree. Alexey
