[9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[hugo rivera]

Hi:
I downloaded the plan 9 iso image a couple of days ago.
I just burned it and booted in a Toshiba with an intel Core2 Duo, with
a sata hard drive.
When I just run plan 9, without installing it, everything runs ok, but
when I choose the install option, it starts loading and the freezes in
the "use dma" question.
Any clues?

Saludos

Hugo

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente]

Hola!

Any error message?
What is your disk controller?
Have you read the wiki? Is it supported?

Does it freeze whether you choose to use DMA or not?

éxito!



On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> I downloaded the plan 9 iso image a couple of days ago.
> I just burned it and booted in a Toshiba with an intel Core2 Duo, with
> a sata hard drive.
> When I just run plan 9, without installing it, everything runs ok, but
> when I choose the install option, it starts loading and the freezes in
> the "use dma" question.
> Any clues?
>
> Saludos
>
> Hugo
>
>

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[hugo rivera]

There are no error messages at all, it just freezes in the DMA
question, before I answer anything.
My laptop is listed in the wiki as: "worked in previous releases and
may work in the current one".
I have a SATA disk, is that what you mean by disk controller?

Gracias por tu ayuda

Hugo

2008/6/10 Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>:
> Hola!
>
> Any error message?
> What is your disk controller?
> Have you read the wiki? Is it supported?
>
> Does it freeze whether you choose to use DMA or not?
>
> éxito!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi:
>> I downloaded the plan 9 iso image a couple of days ago.
>> I just burned it and booted in a Toshiba with an intel Core2 Duo, with
>> a sata hard drive.
>> When I just run plan 9, without installing it, everything runs ok, but
>> when I choose the install option, it starts loading and the freezes in
>> the "use dma" question.
>> Any clues?
>>
>> Saludos
>>
>> Hugo
>>
>>
>

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente]

By disk controller I mean the chipset that handles your disk.
I believe (I've had problems myself) that many SATA controllers are
still buggy/not supported on plan 9.

Toshiba Satellite 2800? I don't think  you have the same laptop. That
2800 was a "single core" computer. 2800s are a whole series of laptops
2800-500 would be a
celeron based one, etc... (I am asuming that is the laptop you are
talking about because it is the only toshiba listed on the "previously
on plan 9" section)

Get the output from lspci on lunix or some other utility on windows or
whatever your usual poison is.

Suerte.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are no error messages at all, it just freezes in the DMA
> question, before I answer anything.
> My laptop is listed in the wiki as: "worked in previous releases and
> may work in the current one".
> I have a SATA disk, is that what you mean by disk controller?
>
> Gracias por tu ayuda
>
> Hugo
>
> 2008/6/10 Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>:
>> Hola!
>>
>> Any error message?
>> What is your disk controller?
>> Have you read the wiki? Is it supported?
>>
>> Does it freeze whether you choose to use DMA or not?
>>
>> éxito!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi:
>>> I downloaded the plan 9 iso image a couple of days ago.
>>> I just burned it and booted in a Toshiba with an intel Core2 Duo, with
>>> a sata hard drive.
>>> When I just run plan 9, without installing it, everything runs ok, but
>>> when I choose the install option, it starts loading and the freezes in
>>> the "use dma" question.
>>> Any clues?
>>>
>>> Saludos
>>>
>>> Hugo
>>>
>>>
>>
>

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[hugo rivera]

well, the only thing I could find using Widows Vista was:
Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller
and
FUJITSU MHY2250BH


2008/6/11 Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>:
> By disk controller I mean the chipset that handles your disk.
> I believe (I've had problems myself) that many SATA controllers are
> still buggy/not supported on plan 9.
>
> Toshiba Satellite 2800? I don't think  you have the same laptop. That
> 2800 was a "single core" computer. 2800s are a whole series of laptops
> 2800-500 would be a
> celeron based one, etc... (I am asuming that is the laptop you are
> talking about because it is the only toshiba listed on the "previously
> on plan 9" section)
>
> Get the output from lspci on lunix or some other utility on windows or
> whatever your usual poison is.
>
> Suerte.
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are no error messages at all, it just freezes in the DMA
>> question, before I answer anything.
>> My laptop is listed in the wiki as: "worked in previous releases and
>> may work in the current one".
>> I have a SATA disk, is that what you mean by disk controller?
>>
>> Gracias por tu ayuda
>>
>> Hugo
>>
>> 2008/6/10 Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente <lorenzobivens@gmail.com>:
>>> Hola!
>>>
>>> Any error message?
>>> What is your disk controller?
>>> Have you read the wiki? Is it supported?
>>>
>>> Does it freeze whether you choose to use DMA or not?
>>>
>>> éxito!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:51 PM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi:
>>>> I downloaded the plan 9 iso image a couple of days ago.
>>>> I just burned it and booted in a Toshiba with an intel Core2 Duo, with
>>>> a sata hard drive.
>>>> When I just run plan 9, without installing it, everything runs ok, but
>>>> when I choose the install option, it starts loading and the freezes in
>>>> the "use dma" question.
>>>> Any clues?
>>>>
>>>> Saludos
>>>>
>>>> Hugo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[erik quanstrom]

> well, the only thing I could find using Widows Vista was:
> Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller
> and
> FUJITSU MHY2250BH

are you using a very recent cd?

if you can copy down any lines that look like these
that pop up during the boot process and send them
to me offline?

	#S/sdE: ahci sb600 port 0xe0022800: sss 0 ncs 31 coal 1 mports 3 led 1 clo 1 ems 0
	#S/sdE: sb600: sata-II with 4 ports

it would also be helpful if you could send me the output
of a tool like lspci.  i don't know if there's a windows
equivalent.  i'm most interested in the vid and did of the
ahci controller.

- erik

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[hugo rivera]

yes, I downloaded the cd about 10 days ago.
These are the lines that I could find:

ahci0 port 0xf0704000: hba sss 0; ncs 31; coal 1; mport 2; led 1; clo 1; ems 0;
ich: sata-II with 3 ports

and this is the lspci -vvv output:

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller
(rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff50
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 66
        Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=8]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 18d4 [size=4]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 18d8 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at 18d0 [size=4]
        Region 4: I/O ports at 18e0 [size=32]
        Region 5: Memory at f0704000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/2 Enable+
                Address: fee00000  Data: 4042
        Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [a8] #12 [0010]

And also, for some reason, it takes a while to echo on the screen what
I write on the keyboard. I mean, if you write something, then it
appears on screen after 5 seconds, more or less.

Thanks for your help

Hugo

2008/6/13 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> well, the only thing I could find using Widows Vista was:
>> Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller
>> and
>> FUJITSU MHY2250BH
>
> are you using a very recent cd?
>
> if you can copy down any lines that look like these
> that pop up during the boot process and send them
> to me offline?
>
>        #S/sdE: ahci sb600 port 0xe0022800: sss 0 ncs 31 coal 1 mports 3 led 1 clo 1 ems 0
>        #S/sdE: sb600: sata-II with 4 ports
>
> it would also be helpful if you could send me the output
> of a tool like lspci.  i don't know if there's a windows
> equivalent.  i'm most interested in the vid and did of the
> ahci controller.
>
> - erik
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] Running plan 9 on a Toshiba laptop

[erik quanstrom]

> ahci0 port 0xf0704000: hba sss 0; ncs 31; coal 1; mport 2; led 1; clo 1; ems 0;
> ich: sata-II with 3 ports
>
> and this is the lspci -vvv output:
>
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller
> (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
[...]

looking through the sources version of the driver, it appears that
the problems i was worried about have been addressed.  i don't have
hardware with a discontiguous set of ports with which to test.

the most likely source of this problem would be if the kernel
recognizes the same ports as sata and legacy ide.  that could be
due to a bios bug.  but i'm just guessing.  do you get any messages
from the ide driver?

> And also, for some reason, it takes a while to echo on the screen what
> I write on the keyboard. I mean, if you write something, then it
> appears on screen after 5 seconds, more or less.

is this just with plan 9?

- erik