I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that down a bit. It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises. I've upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1. It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1 configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs). If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think. If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the floppy (there is no floppy) with the following message: fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: does not respond device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right before the floppy) If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at the same place. I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R. Both do the same thing.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>wrote:> I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot > of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that > down a bit. > > It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the > bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises. I've > upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1. It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1 > configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs). > > If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think. > > If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the > floppy > (there is no floppy) with the following message: > > fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: does not respond > device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 > > If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place > (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right > before > the floppy) > > If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at > the same place. > > I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R. Both do the same thing. > >Can you disable the floppy drive and controller? There are usually separate options on different screens. -- Adam Vande More
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>wrote: > >> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on >> acpi0 >> fdc0: does not respond >> device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 >> >> If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place >> (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right >> before >> the floppy) >> >> If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at >> the same place. >> > > Can you disable the floppy drive and controller? There are usually > separate options on different screens. >I've now verified that 8.0-RC3 does the same thing, BTW. Anyways... no. There is no floppy option in the BIOS. It's not in any of the sub-menus (which is how Dell's BIOS is organized). I'm also not-so-sure that the floppy is where it's stopping because the non-ACPI boot doesn't mention the floppy at all ... leading me to believe it's whatever is checked "after" the floppy that is at fault... but even the verbose boot doesn't let me know what that might be.
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:> I have a dell 1950 here on the floor. Since "1950" seems to refer to a lot > of things with a lot of configurations, I'm going to attempt to narrow that > down a bit. > > It's got 2x 2.33Ghz dual core pentiums (stepping 06-0F-6 according to the > bios) in it and it has an SAS RAID card that FreeBSD recognises. I've > upgraded the BIOS to 2.6.1. It has two SAS 70G drives in a RAID 1 > configuration and it has a DVD (although it will only boot from CDs). > > If it helps, it's between 2 and 3 years old, I think. > > If I allow the machine to boot normally, it stopps after checking the floppy > (there is no floppy) with the following message: > > fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: does not respond > device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 > > If I boot the machine without ACPI, it seems to stop at the same place > (stopping after having checked the ata controller, which checks right before > the floppy) > > If I boot the machine verbose, I get no more information --- it stopps at > the same place. > > I have tried this (so far) with 7.2-R and 7.1-R. Both do the same thing. >Can you try with 7.0 (should be available on ftp-archive)? I have a 1950 from Sept '07 that's now running 7.2-STABLE i386 with the fd devices removed. It started out as 7.0-RELEASE, so maybe its a problem introduced since then? Also, you didn't mention if you were running i386 or amd64. Richard