Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, John wrote: I get Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl /kernel: ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded I've looked at the sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c code - I wonder if I should just arbitarily raise the retry count a bit - what's everyone else ok, i don't know if this is documented

Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-14 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:25:25PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: I have an update, additional information... Instead of getting the device ID line, i.e. Jan 11 17:56:56 pearl /kernel: acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8241B at ata0-slave PIO I get Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl

Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: Despite the fact that the laptop compatibility base has an entry for this machine that looks good for FreeBSD 5.0, I'm not having the best luck that one might hope. i've got an Armada M300, which shares a lot of the same underlying hardware as the M700 and

Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-12 Thread John
Despite the fact that the laptop compatibility base has an entry for this machine that looks good for FreeBSD 5.0, I'm not having the best luck that one might hope. I've read through the Release notes and Hardware notes, and Errata on the web site for this release and on the CD (NFS mounted from