Re: DEC PWS500au (MiataGL) EIDE Issues

Sorry for the delay!

So, I booted the no-cypide kernel, and it cleared the "stray isa irq"
messages. However, I don't seem to be able to do anything with the CD-ROM
(stock Toshiba XM-6302b) attached as the secondary slave device.

Here are the boot logs:

<snip>
[   1.0000000] pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Contaq Microsystems 82C693
PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x00)
[   1.0000000] pciide0: primary channel ignored (not responding; disabled
or no drives?)
[   1.0000000] pciide0: secondary channel ignored (other hardware
responding at addresses)
[   1.0000000] pciide1 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: Contaq Microsystems 82C693
PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x00)
[   1.0000000] pciide1: primary channel ignored (not responding; disabled
or no drives?)
[   1.0000000] pciide1: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
[   1.0000000] atabus0 at pciide1 channel 1
<snip>
[   1.2316134] sd0 at atapibus0 drive 0:
<\007\007x\003xx\000x\000\000\004\000\000\0\000 7O BHD MR-X23, 0\000 7O BHD
MR-X23, \002> disk removable
[   1.3839553] uhub0 at usb0: NetBSD (0000) OHCI root hub (0000), class
9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
[   1.4974007] sd0(pciide1:1:0): Sense Error Code 0x60
[   1.5538064] sd0: drive offline
<snip>

And, of course, the drive isn't available:

-bash-5.1$ sudo fdisk sd0
fdisk: cannot opendisk /dev/rsd0: Device not configured

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
- Alex

On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 10:34 AM Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On May 18, 2021, at 9:15 PM, Alexander Jacocks <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I finally managed to get the system up, having found a different LSI
> 53c875 SCSI controller, that seems to work.
> >
> > Is there anything that I can do to test, easier, now that the system is
> working?
>
> Hey Alex, sorry I wasn’t able to work on this for a couple of days.
>
> So, I think the first experiment to try is: build a kernel without
> “cypide” … just use the fall-back “pciide” driver that will only do PIO,
> and see if that does any better.
>
> I built one for you:
>
>     http://www.netbsd.org/~thorpej/netbsd-alpha-9-2-GENERIC-no-cypide.gz
>
> Give that a whirl… if it results in a working drive (using the slower PIO
> modes), then that narrows down where we need to look.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- thorpej
>
>