I was trying to build a OpenBSD file server using an old 5U computer I was given. I purchased: - ASUS K8S-MX - AMD Athlon 64 Processor 2800+ - 512MB of RAM I was going to use a couple of older drives (10GB & 3GB) I had around to build a working system and then add larger disk drives for the file server volumes. I picked the ASUS K8S-MX primarily because it's small size and everything I needed was on the motherboard (ethernet, video, SATA).
My problems began when booting from the OpenBSD 3.7 amd64 CD. I got the following error: wd0 (pciide0:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 512 c_skip: 0 pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 I found this page: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=167639 that gave the "config" commands to permit booting. I was successful in booting from the CD but I was unable to install from the CD (it wasn't found). I installed the drives as follows: - Primary IDE master: 10GB drive - Primary IDE slave: 3GB drive - Secondary IDE master: CD drive The secondary IDE slave and 2 SATA slots were left for future server volumes. I set up a ftp server on another system but was unable to access the server. The network didn't work. I installed an ethernet card (D-Link Systems 530TX+) and then managed to install OpenBSD. I made the required "config" changes to "/bsd" so that the system would boot without the above "bus-master DMA error" The boot message shows the disks: fd0, hd0+, hd1+ While the drives on the Primary IDE are recognized, the CD drive on the Secondary IDE is not. The floppy drive in not recognized either. I've tried 6 of the 8 USB ports and they recognized when I plug in and remove a USB device (a mouse). The complete "dmesg" output can be found at: http://www.mindspring.com/~szedula/dmesg.boot.txt But I found these "unknown" messages in the "dmesg" output: vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x0965 (class bridge subclass ISA, rev 0x47) at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x0190 (class network subclass ethernet, rev 0x00) at pci0 dev 4 function 0 not configured vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x0182 (class mass storage subclass RAID, rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x000a rev 0x00 ppb2 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor "SIS", unknown product 0x000a rev 0x00 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: unknown winbond chip ID 0x88 I installed another drive at the Secondary IDE slave. Tried installing a trial version of Windows XP64 (to make sure the hardware was working and update the BIOS). I found out I had to move the new drive to the "Primary IDE Master" for Windows to work. After doing that and installing Windows I found out Windows didn't have drivers for: - Silicon Integrated Systems Corp SiS190 100/10 Ethernet Device PCI bus 0, device 4, function 0 - Silicon Integrated Systems Corp SiS 182 RAID Controler PCI bus 0, device 5, function 0 - Analog Devices, Inc. Sound, video and game controllers PCI bus 0, device 2, function 7 The ASUS web site had beta drivers which I installed in order to get the above descriptions. The BIOS and drivers were found on the ASUS web page: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?Type=All&model=K8S-MX Unless someone has any words of wisdom for fixing my problems with the ASUS K8S-MX (like 3.7 -current works) it looks like I've managed to get an unworkable motherboard. Anyone have any recommendations for solutions? Replacement motherboards? Will OpenBSD 3.8 support this motherboard? Joe Szedula Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
