i386/71924: ata+hpt366 controller on BE6II motherboard

[Alexander Topuzov]

>Number:         71924
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       ata+hpt366 controller on BE6II motherboard
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 20 08:00:45 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alexander Topuzov
>Release:        4.10
>Organization:
DME
>Environment:
FreeBSD server.datamap 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 26 11:27:58 EEST 2004     root at server.datamap:/usr/src/sys/compile/FILESRV  i386

>Description:
A system with attached hard-disk to the HPT366 controller!
The bios of the HPT366 controller is not flashed!
when running command "portsdb -Uu to update INDEX file after cvsup-ing ports collections getting the next output.....

server# portsdb -Uu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Sep 20 10:16:34
 server login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2
ad4: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
ata2: resetting devices .. ata2-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded
done 

The output of atacontrol list command..

ATA channel 0:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 1:
    Master: acd0 <_NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A/C000> ATA/ATAPI rev 0
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 2:
    Master:  ad4 <Maxtor 2R015H1/EAH41MF0> ATA/ATAPI rev 6
    Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
    Master:      no device present
    Slave:       no device present 

I just want to help! -I am not sure if this is really a problem or my own misconfiguration on tunning my hard-disk

Sorry for convenience!

Good Luck!
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