[Soekris] Harddisk disappears upon reboot

Fri Jan 26 13:12:03 UTC 2007

Hi all,

On my net4801, the hard disk disappears after rebooting OpenBSD 4.0.

This is the BIOS's output after reboot:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
comBIOS ver. 1.28  20050529  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.

net4801

0256 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode 266 Mhz

Pri Mas  SanDisk SDCFH-512               LBA 993-16-63  500 Mbyte

Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0003000 00000000 11
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

If i cycle power, the disk appears again:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
comBIOS ver. 1.28  20050529  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering.

net4801

0256 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode 266 Mhz

Pri Mas  SanDisk SDCFH-512               LBA 993-16-63  500 Mbyte
Pri Sla  FUJITSU MHV2120AT               LBA Xlt 1024-255-63  51684 Mbyte
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since OpenBSD doesn't detect the disk either, it is impossible to do an 
unattended reboot.

I saw a similar posting on this ML:

http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2006-December/011392.html

however, in my case, the disk is *not* detected by BIOS, neither has the 
reboot been triggered by watchdog.

dmesg of box:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenBSD 4.0-stable (GENERIC) #1: Mon Nov  6 17:19:58 CET 2006

root at obsdmaster.ant.uni-bremen.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC" 
586-class) 267 M
Hz
cpu0: FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX
cpu0: TSC disabled
real mem  = 268005376 (261724K)
avail mem = 236724224 (231176K)
using 3297 buffers containing 13504512 bytes (13188K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 20/50/29, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc8000/0x9000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Cyrix GXm PCI" rev 0x00
sis0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A: 
irq 10, address
00:00:24:c7:34:00
nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A: 
irq 10, address
00:00:24:c7:34:01
nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis2 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A: 
irq 10, address
00:00:24:c7:34:02
nsphyter2 at sis2 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
gscpcib0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NS SC1100 ISA" rev 0x00
gpio0 at gscpcib0: 64 pins
"NS SC1100 SMI" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 18 function 1 not configured
pciide0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "NS SCx200 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 
0 wired to co
mpatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-512>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 488MB, 1000944 sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <FUJITSU MHV2120AT>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 114473MB, 234441648 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
geodesc0 at pci0 dev 18 function 5 "NS SC1100 X-Bus" rev 0x00: iid 6 
revision 3 wdstat
us 0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Compaq USB OpenHost" rev 0x08: irq 11, 
version 1.0, l
egacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Compaq OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
isa0 at gscpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
nsclpcsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: NSC PC87366 rev 9: GPIO VLM TMS
gpio1 at nsclpcsio0: 29 pins
gscsio0 at isa0 port 0x15c/2: SC1100 SIO rev 1:
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom0: console
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
biomask fbe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
pctr: no performance counters in CPU
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

This problem is reproducible.

Any ideas?

	Heinrich

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Heinrich Rebehn

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