Are you running with a SATA drive? (and no PATA/no CF)?

Are you running GENERIC, or something else?
-- 
David E. Cross

Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im running FreeBSD v8.0 on Soekris 5501 without any problems.
>
>
> / Ebbe
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>> Simply put there seems to be a delay or 'race' on the SATA boot (I am
>> running comBIOS 1.33).
>>
>> If I boot the system at 9600 baud, with a SATA disk, it will very
>> reliably *NOT* see it on boot, if I 'boot -v' (verbose boot), it will
>> see it (at 9600 baud), if I then increase the speed to 115200, it will
>> not see the disk at regular boot or verbose boot.   My theory is that
>> the 'extra' information that is required to be sent for verbose booting
>> at 9600 slows it down enough for it to be probed and attached.  I have
>> diffed the verbose boot at 9600 that worked and the one at 19200 that
>> did not work and there are no differences between the 2 boot sessions.
>>
>> (note the comBIOS system seems to reliably see the disk, and hand over
>> control to boot/loader and then the kernel, its just those probe
>> routines that stall/fail.  I am open to it being a FreeBSD bug, I am
>> hoping with your experience you've seen it before).  I went through the
>> mailing lists and have found nothing so far related to this.
>>
>> --
>> David E. Cross
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