Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on landisk PX-EH from Seagate ST68022CF HDD

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02-18-2008, 09:32 AM

Miod Vallat

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Re: Cannot boot OpenBSD on landisk PX-EH from Seagate ST68022CF HDD

> Port landisk based on USL-5P platform that uses CF as bootable device. I
> try to use Seagate ST68022CF HDD with CF IDE interface to boot OpenBSD
> 4.2 current latest snapshot on compatible with USL-5P Plextor PX-EH
> platform, but nothing has turned out ....
>
> Booting Seagate 8G microdrive with miniroot42.fs installation image:
>
> SH IPL+g version 0.9, Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
>
> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `w'.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
> certain conditions; type `l' for details.
>
> 2002/09/09 Making. 2005/03/01 I-O DATA NSU Update for revB chip.
> 266:133:33 on base clock 22.22MHz and SDRAM 4 burst. ATA boot.
>
> A-Card ATP865 ATA controller found.
> PCIC initialization done.
> MASTER:48bit LBA mode non support
> Disk drive detected: ST68022CF 3.01 4NX01SNP
> LBA: 00EE6B30
> DiskSize: 3705036800Byte
^^^^^^^^^^

This looks wrong for a 8GB drive.

> PIO MODE1
> A-Card ATP865 ATA controller found.
> > b
> Set Transfer Mode result: 50
> Initialize Device Parameters result: 50
> IDLE result: 50
>
> OpenBSD MBR
>
> OpenBSD/landisk Primary Bootstrap
> >> OpenBSD/landisk BOOT 1.00
> boot>
> booting cf:/bsd: Timeout: d0
>
> open cf:/bsd: Input/output error
> failed(5). will try /obsd
[...]

At this point, the OpenBSD bootloader is relying on the firmware
(SH IPL+g) for all I/O operations.

It looks like the firmware does not support your CF-IDE converter
correctly. If this is indeed the case, there is not much we can do.

You might want to check if your CF-IDE converter is properly connected,
and if it has configuration switches, you might want to experiment with
them. Maybe, in a particular configuration, it will be supported by the
firmware. My first idea would be to disable LBA48 if possible.

Miod

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