Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

[Purple_Q <bitpusher2600@gmail.com>]

Oops. My own trigger finger, sorry.

Yeah, the drive is just fine if set in the bios to ahci, but plan9
can't see it. If I set it to IDE, plan9 can see it but it gives BSD
the errors you see in the image. Weird.

On Feb 25, 7:28 am, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:
> On Thu Feb 25 07:19:14 EST 2010, quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
>
> > On Thu Feb 25 06:29:21 EST 2010, bitpusher2...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is).
> > > That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I
> > > believe is near the end of the boot sequence in fact. ad0 is my hard
> > > disk;
> > > queuevonqu.com/bsderr.jpg
>
> > that's not plan 9, but it looks like a drive failure.
>
> too quick on the trigger finger.  i think i understand
> correctly that the same drive works fine if the southbridge
> is in ide mode.  in that case, i'm not sure what's going on.
> the drive is identifying correctly, but read/write commands
> fail.  if we assume that this kernel uses interrupts to identify
> the drive, then the problem isn't interrupts, it's that the
> read/write commands are failing.  that really does look
> like drive failure, and i'd be pretty surprised if the drive
> worked in ide mode.
>
> - erik