T40 bootloop on CAM status: Command timeout on both 10.1 and -CURRENT

[Steven Hartland]

Is there anything connected to the second channel, if so what.

Was this working in a previous version and if so which one and what was 
the verbose boot log from it?

On 30/03/2015 19:07, bsdml wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> thanks for your clarification. Unfortunately I wasn't aware that the 
> T40 and *4's line used a SATA-PATA convertor and especially that was 
> going to clash with the new ATA stack in FreeBSD. Either OpenBSD and 
> NetBSD do work out of the box without any hassle, however I'd still 
> prefer to use FreeBSD on it as I have been using FreeBSD for about 8 
> years now and I am very comfortable with it.
>
> The question at this point is, is there any hope to see this issue 
> resolved in the future? Or will I have to give up to the second ATA 
> channel in order to use FreeBSD?
>
> Regards,
> Pietro Sammarco
>
> On 30/03/2015 06:17, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Wolfgang Zenker 
>> <wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org <mailto:wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     * bsdml <pietro.bsdml at gmail.com <mailto:pietro.bsdml at gmail.com>>
>>     [150329 01:34]:
>>     > since I tried to install FreeBSD 10.1 on my recently purchased 
>> T40 I got
>>     > stuck at this annoying bootloop that says
>>     > "ATAPY_IDENTIFY. ACB: a1 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 etc etc.. CAM
>>     status:
>>     > Command timeout". I have also tried latest 11-CURRENT snapshot
>>     and it
>>     > did not make any difference at all, it is affected from the same
>>     exact
>>     > bootloop.
>>     > [..]
>>     > It seems like there might be an issue with the CAM ATA stack 
>> that is
>>     > clashing with the PATA controller on my T40.
>>
>>     I had the same problem on an ancient T42p. In my case, disabling the
>>     second ata channel allowed me to boot.
>>
>>     I added the following line to /boot/device.hints:
>>     hint.ata.1.disabled="1"
>>
>>
>> This is an annoying side-effect of the brain-dead SATA-PATA converter 
>> in that generation of ThinkPads. The Intel ICH6 chipset is SATA, but, 
>> for reasons known ot IBM/Lenovo, the systems used PATA drives! So 
>> they has a SATA-PATA converter built in that screwed up a LOT of 
>> things, mostly compromising performance and generating assorted log 
>> entries. Looks like that also is broken in modern ATA support if a 
>> drive is not present.
>>
>> This was always my biggest complaint with this laptop (T42) which I 
>> used for several years until I retired and returned to so it could be 
>> excessed legally as it was government property (and, I didn't really 
>> want it, even if I could have kept it). Not an awful system, but this 
>> one issue was really annoying to me.
>> -- 
>> Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
>> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com <mailto:rkoberman at gmail.com>
>
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