On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:07:04AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> Years ago I bought a Promise TX2plus PCI card which is a two channel
> SATAII board w/ one ATA channel that uses a PDC20775.  It wasn't
> supported at the time so it went on a shelf.  The other day I tried
> to get it working and found that while it is recognized, I get a
> solid hang after fd0 if a drive is plugged in.  By hard hang I mean
> the reset button doesn't event work and I have to hold down the
> power button for 10 seconds.
> 
> Below is dmesg with no drives attached.  At the end is dmesg from
> a NetBSD boot CD which doesn't suffer from this problem.  The
> NetBSD pdcsata driver does some things that our pciide does not.
> 
> Anyone have an idea better than just enabling the #if 0 debugging
> in pdc205xx_drv_probe?  I wonder if the presence of the ATA channel
> is related to the issue.  We don't seem to have any special handling
> of that.
> 
>  - todd

Looks like you might need some changes from their rev 1.7 or 1.13?

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