NetBSD 9.2 (amd64) does not recognize hard disk

mghis

Hello guys.
I've been trying to install NetBSD 9.2 on my PC. I downloaded the USB install image and booted from it. It recognized all of my disks but the one I wish to install NetBSD into. I tweaked a few settings in the BIOS configuration, without success. I saved the output of dmesg, and uploaded it here: https://filebin.net/qq4e09yieo8e85fs. dmesg.txt is the output with my former BIOS configuration. linux_dmesg.txt is the output from linux. The disk which is not recognized is "ST1000DM010-2EP1", 1TB, SATA. Linux recognized it fine and is even installed in a portion of the disk. While the computer is quite old, I bought the disk less than six months ago, and I believe it is not faulty.
If I have to provide further information, don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you in advance for your help.

rvp

mghis Can you:

Put the 1TB Seagate on another controller?
As another test, unplug all your other drives, then try connect the 1 TB driver to each controller in turn to see which one (if any) it works on? Boot NetBSD from the USB drive, of course.

mghis

I finally tried to switch controllers and to unplug other drives. Sorry for the delay of my reply: I have been away from the computer and I couldn't try earlier. Unfortunately, the drive is not recognized by any controller and the message viaide1: autoconfiguration error: BSY never cleared, status 0x80 changes to viaide[0123] depending on the controller I connected the drive to.

I also tried to install from a CD-R and remove the USB stick. Nothing changes.
However, I booted FreeBSD on the computer and I noticed that the disks are recognized as follows:

ada0 at ata3 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <ST3250620AS 3.AAK> ATA-7 SATA 1.x device ada0: Serial Number 6QF2YYKG ada0: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors) ada1 at ata4 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0 ada1: <ST1000DM010-2EP102 CC43> ATA8-ACS SATA 3.x device ada1: Serial Number ZN1CCXCF ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors) ada1: quirks=0x1<4K> ada2 at ata6 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 ada2: <ST3500418AS CC34> ATA8-ACS SATA 2.x device ada2: Serial Number 6VM0D0EG ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada2: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors) ada3 at ata7 bus 0 scbus7 target 0 lun 0 ada3: <WDC WD3200AAKS-00L9A0 01.03E01> ATA8-ACS SATA 2.x device ada3: Serial Number WD-WCAV2D245516 ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes) ada3: 305245MB (625142448 512 byte sectors)

Only the disk which is not recognized by NetBSD prints the "quirks" line. Do you deem possible that the "quirk" might be the cause of the problem with NetBSD? If so, I should try to understand what this 4K quirk means and how FreeBSD copes with it. Unfortunately ada(5) man page is not much helpful.

EDIT: The link above expired; I uploaded it again and added the output from FreeBSD. This is the new link: https://filebin.net/q8fie6bcgdtb5ok6

rvp

mghis If so, I should try to understand what this 4K quirk means

This just tell you that the 1TB drive has 4K sectors (as most large drives now tend to have) instead of 512-byte ones. Don't worry about it.

I don't know why NetBSD is using viaide at all instead of the native SATA driver ahci.
Can you switch the drive controller in your BIOS into AHCI mode? In my BIOS, I can select either IDE or AHCI--my drive, fortunately works with either.
If this doesn't work, try the kernel here
I've increased the IDE ~~retry delay~~ RESET timeout from 5 secs to 31--to accord with the (very old) specs.
You may have to replace the kernel in 2 places: in the USB install image amd on the installed partition on disk after the install is finished.

hpaluch

Hello, all!

I had exactly same problem - NetBSD 9.3, nVIDIA MCP55 SATA, HDD ST1000DM010. In my case this trivial patch fixed problem for me:

edit /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/sata_subr.c
and replace his line:
scontrol = SControl_IPM_NONE | SControl_SPD_ANY | SControl_DET_INIT;
with line:
scontrol = SControl_IPM_NONE | SControl_SPD_G1 | SControl_DET_INIT;

And rebuild your kernel. In my case I used already installed linux with grub to boot modified kernel on that PC.

This patch simply disables SATA speed auto-negotiation (in my case 3Gb/s) and forces slowest speed (1.5Gb/s).