Thanks for the tip, I now tried OpenBSD 5.6-current from the FTP snapshot but still no disks available. As suggested by the others I post here below the full dmesg output:
OpenBSD 5.6-current (RAMDISK_CD) #351: Wed Sep 17 12:10:28 MDT 2014 t...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD real mem = 17101213696 (16308MB) avail mem = 16640602112 (15869MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xec120 (77 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "4.6.5" date 03/19/2014 bios0: Intel EPGSVR acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC FPDT SSDT MCFG HPET SSDT SSDT SPMI ASF! SPCR DMAR EINJ ERST HEST BERT acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v3 @ 3.50GHz, 3691.92 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,FMA3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,LONG,LAHF,ABM,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,BMI1,HLE,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,RTM cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured cpu at mainbus0: not configured ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 4 (RP01) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 5 (RP04) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 1 (P0P2) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 2 (P0PA) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 3 (P0PB) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEG0) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEG1) acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 3 (PEG2) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 Host" rev 0x06 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel Core 4G PCIE" rev 0x06: msi pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ix0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:2b:1b:9c ix1 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:2b:1b:9d ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Intel Core 4G PCIE" rev 0x06: msi pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 em0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a2 em1 at pci2 dev 0 function 1 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a3 em2 at pci2 dev 0 function 2 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a4 em3 at pci2 dev 0 function 3 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a5 ppb2 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "Intel Core 4G PCIE" rev 0x06: msi pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 em4 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a6 em5 at pci3 dev 0 function 1 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a7 em6 at pci3 dev 0 function 2 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a8 em7 at pci3 dev 0 function 3 "Intel I350" rev 0x01: msi, address 00:10:f3:3b:70:a9 "Intel 8 Series xHCI" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 not configured ehci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0 "Intel 8 Series USB" rev 0x05: apic 2 int 16 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 8 Series PCIE" rev 0xd5: msi pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 "Intel 8 Series PCIE" rev 0xd5: msi pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 ppb5 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST1150 PCI" rev 0x02 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 vga1 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "ASPEED Technology AST2000" rev 0x21 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) ehci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 8 Series USB" rev 0x05: apic 2 int 23 usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 "Intel C226 LPC" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 not configured ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 8 Series AHCI" rev 0x05: msi, AHCI 1.3 scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets ahci0: attempting to idle device ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. ahci0: failed to soft reset device "Intel 8 Series SMBus" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured isa0 at mainbus0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8/8 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhub2 at uhub0 port 1 "vendor 0x8087 product 0x8008" rev 2.00/0.05 addr 2 uhub3 at uhub1 port 1 "vendor 0x8087 product 0x8000" rev 2.00/0.05 addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub3 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard" rev 1.10/23.00 addr 3 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub3 port 3 configuration 1 interface 1 "Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard" rev 1.10/23.00 addr 3 uhidev1: iclass 3/0, 2 report ids uhid at uhidev1 reportid 1 not configured uhid at uhidev1 reportid 2 not configured softraid0 at root scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets On Friday, September 19, 2014 3:39 AM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: Try OpenBSD 5.6, a workaround was provided in ahci for this issue. Or, recompile your OpenBSD 5.5 kernel with this patch: http://openbsd.cs.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/ic/ahci.c.diff?r1=1.13&r2=1.14 ML mail [mlnos...@yahoo.com] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.5 (amd64) to use as a firewall on a SATA > flash drive of 8 GB. Unfortuantely the drive does not get detected by OpenBSD > at the installation so I am unable to install OpenBSD. > > The relevant output of the dmesg would be the following: > > > "Intel C226 LPC" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 not configured > ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 8 Series AHCI" rev 0x05: msi, AHCI 1.3 > ahci0: device on port 1 didn't come ready, TFD: 0x80<BSY> > ahci0: stopping the port, softreset slot 31 was still active. > ahci0: unable to communicate with device on port 1 > > Any ideas for a workaround or fix? > > Regards > ML -- The bums will always lose