I've got an IBM T43p that I use in a docking station at work. The dock has an ATA interface and slot for a notebook hard drive or CD/DVD drive. For some reason, an interrupt is not assigned to the ATA interface (possibly ACPI interpreter issues but I don't know). If a drive is plugged into the dock slot, snv_49 hangs for a while on boot and I get errors and the drive light stays on until the machine is shut down.
With older versions of Nevada and Solaris 10 Update 2, I can work around the issue. I boot with the drive in the dock unplugged, run devfsadm -C to clean up unused disk entries (specifically /dev/rdsk/c0*). Then I do a reconfiguration boot to ensure all other devices in the docks (USB ports, etc) are seen and configured. Then I shut down, plug in the drive (used for backups in Windows XP) and then boot. The drive is not accessed by Solaris and there are no timeouts and the light stays off. However, with snv_49, the device entries seem to be created automatically during a normal (not reconfiguration) reboot. This did not happen with earlier versions of Nevada (I'm not sure about 48). I'll attach the output of scanpci -v and /var/adm/messages so things are a bit clearer. I wonder if there is a way for the dock ATA interface to be used with Solaris? Or is there a way to prevent snv_49 for doing a reconfiguration during normal boot? Thanks, Stuart PS - machine is an IBM (Lenovo) T43p with a Dock II docking station. Pentium M, 2 GB RAM, ATI FireGL V3200, Intel 295abg wifi, etc. Solaris installed on a second disk, booted with System Commander installed on the original boot disk (Windows XP). I use an external Plextor 716UF as the installation drive connected with USB. This message posted from opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: scanpci.dock Type: application/octet-stream Size: 11638 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20061019/acbbdf9e/attachment.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: messages.dock Type: application/octet-stream Size: 32841 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20061019/acbbdf9e/attachment-0001.obj>
