special test request for 6.1-BETA1 on ATA disks

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:23:11PM +0100, Sten Spans wrote..
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote..
> >>Folks,
> >>
> >>I am getting the strong impression that there is something hosed
> >>related to ATA at least on the DS10 and DS10L.  Test installs
> >>on ATA disks work fine, but the first boot of the installed disk
> >>fails miserably, typically the symptom is that the first shell won't
> >>start or similar.  I got:
> >>
> >>Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
> >>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.6: Unsupported relocation type 
> >>1611047936
> >>in non-PLT relocations
> >>
> >>Observed on one DS10 and one DS10L.  The problem does not
> >>occur when you use a SCSI disk (which I typically do so I missed this
> >>before).
> >>
> >>Those of you who own this machine type and have a spare IDE drive,
> >>can you please test it?  Other reports for different system models
> >>are interesting too of course.
> >
> >A check of 5.5-BETA1 would be interesting too.
> 
> I'll give it a go this weekend on my ds10
> (which also normally runs scsi :)

Looks like it is not only DS10, my 164SX has similar probs as well.
5.5-BETA1 and 6.1-BETA1 have it.  In total we have seen it on 2 DS10L,
one DS10 and a 164SX now.  SCSI is just fine.  

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org