RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. -biju -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
> Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). > When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up > ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. > -biju Normally for my own kernel, I set the IDE delay very low

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
llian Sharkey Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 4:28 PM To: b...@wipinfo.soft.net Cc: hack...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? > Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). > When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometime

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
> I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how > this > delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. > > -biju I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it sees all disks on both controllers. I think the problem was

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
> > > I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really > don't know how this > > delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive > while booting helps. > > > > -biju > > I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it > sees all disks > on both controllers. I thi

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
hi, I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen by Win98 and BIOS. Can someone help? And what does "ide_pci: gener

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Biju Susmer wrote: > hi, > I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it > refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed > something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen > by > Win98 and BI

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Chris
When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never got a straight answe

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Wes Peters
Chris wrote: > > When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a > Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary > master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my > CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I ne

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Biju Susmer
> Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. > I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration? When i was us

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Wes Peters
Biju Susmer wrote: > > > Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE > > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. > > > I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this > configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse t

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured > hardware? Since when has PC hardware followed the specs? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer f

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why > > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured > > hardware? > > Since when has PC hardware followed the s

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Biju Susmer
> > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of > the spec. Why > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support > mis-configured > hardware? > The box was shipped to me this way.. i'm no a hardware expert to know the IDE specs. As far as i know, it work for Win

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06-Aug-99 Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > Since when has PC hardware followed the specs? > Since it was made to work? The problem here is that this person, for some > reason, is misconfiguring their system and expecting it to work as if it > were configured properly. Sure but a lot of PC's are

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Biju Susmer
> OK, i went to net and got this page > (http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT > API-FAQ) there > also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me. > The vendor didn't > follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;) > > Some one please put this in an FAQ (if

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Biju Susmer wrote: > > OK, i went to net and got this page > > (http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT > > API-FAQ) there > > also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me. > > The vendor didn't > > follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;) > >

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Chris
Wes Peters wrote: > > Biju Susmer wrote: > > > > > Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE > > > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. > > > > > I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this > > configuration without any

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <001201bedfb8$92fa3440$88291...@wipro.tcpn.com> "Biju Susmer" writes: : I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this : configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration? : When i was using 2.2.7-stable, FBSD used to recognize my CDRO

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : Since it was made to work? The problem here is that this person, for some : reason, is misconfiguring their system and expecting it to work as if it : were configured properly. Odd, all of the machines that I've seen shipped lately have their CDROMs on a s

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <37ab8b48.4a791...@tig.com.au> Chris writes: : As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough : then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. I'd love to see chapter and verse on this :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-07 Thread Shaun Jurrens
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 11:15:25PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: #> In message <37ab8b48.4a791...@tig.com.au> Chris writes: #> : As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough #> : then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. #> #> I'd love to see chapter and verse o

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-08 Thread Biju Susmer
> > Odd, all of the machines that I've seen shipped lately have their > CDROMs on a secondary IDE controller as SLAVE with no master. Works > great, and the FreeBSD drivers work well when hacked to not require > a master fo there to be a slave i commented out one line in wd.c, wdprobe() and i

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The originator claim

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and co

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and co

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chris wrote: > > I am glad to hear from Soren that this 'misconfiguration' will be > supported in 4.0 > As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough > then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. Old message, but still in need for reply. Yeah, like isa shared

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. -biju -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
> Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). > When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up > ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. > -biju Normally for my own kernel, I set the IDE delay very lo

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
ugust 03, 1999 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? > Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). > When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up > ;) I trie

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
> I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how this > delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. > > -biju I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it sees all disks on both controllers. I think the problem was th

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
> > > I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really > don't know how this > > delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive > while booting helps. > > > > -biju > > I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it > sees all disks > on both controllers. I th

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
hi, I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen by Win98 and BIOS. Can someone help? And what does "ide_pci: gene

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-04 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Biju Susmer wrote: > hi, > I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it > refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed > something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen by > Win98 and BIOS

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Chris
When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never got a straight answ

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Wes Peters
Chris wrote: > > When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a > Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary > master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my > CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I n

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Biju Susmer
> Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. > I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration? When i was u

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Wes Peters
Biju Susmer wrote: > > > Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE > > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. > > > I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this > configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured > hardware? Since when has PC hardware followed the specs? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why > > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured > > hardware? > > Since when has PC hardware followed the

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Biju Susmer
> > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of > the spec. Why > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support > mis-configured > hardware? > The box was shipped to me this way.. i'm no a hardware expert to know the IDE specs. As far as i know, it work for Win

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06-Aug-99 Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > Since when has PC hardware followed the specs? > Since it was made to work? The problem here is that this person, for some > reason, is misconfiguring their system and expecting it to work as if it > were configured properly. Sure but a lot of PC's are

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Biju Susmer
> OK, i went to net and got this page > (http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT > API-FAQ) there > also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me. > The vendor didn't > follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;) > > Some one please put this in an FAQ (if

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Biju Susmer wrote: > > OK, i went to net and got this page > > (http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT > > API-FAQ) there > > also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me. > > The vendor didn't > > follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;) >

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Chris
Wes Peters wrote: > > Biju Susmer wrote: > > > > > Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE > > > controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave. > > > > > I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this > > configuration without an

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <001201bedfb8$92fa3440$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Biju Susmer" writes: : I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this : configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration? : When i was using 2.2.7-stable, FBSD used to recognize my CDROM *so

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : Since it was made to work? The problem here is that this person, for some : reason, is misconfiguring their system and expecting it to work as if it : were configured properly. Odd, all of the machines that I've seen shipped lately have

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris writes: : As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough : then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. I'd love to see chapter and verse on this :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-07 Thread Shaun Jurrens
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 11:15:25PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: #> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris writes: #> : As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough #> : then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. #> #> I'd love to see chapter and verse on this :-)

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-08 Thread Biju Susmer
> > Odd, all of the machines that I've seen shipped lately have their > CDROMs on a secondary IDE controller as SLAVE with no master. Works > great, and the FreeBSD drivers work well when hacked to not require > a master fo there to be a slave i commented out one line in wd.c, wdprobe() and

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The originator claim

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and co

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and co

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chris wrote: > > I am glad to hear from Soren that this 'misconfiguration' will be > supported in 4.0 > As always when a misconfiguration (read 'not to spec') is used enough > then it quickly becomes somewhat of a de facto standard. Old message, but still in need for reply. Yeah, like isa share