[Oberon] Bluebottle Crazy-Fresh boot problems

[Stauber Sven Philipp]

Hi,
 
The release of 21.02.2006 introduced a new ATA/ATAPI6 driver (AosATADisks.Mod). On some systems, 
this caused Bluebottle to be unable to boot (on others, it now works but didn't work before).
I had a system here that freezed after displaying "AosDiskVolumes: IDEdev#part". For that particular system, using a CD-ROM drive with DMA mode enabled (default for the new ATA driver) caused the freeze.
The newest release (07.04.2006) now does not use DMA transfers for ATAPI devices per default (as the old ATA driver did), which fixed the problem for the system I had here.
The ATADisks driver now offers the following options:
 
ATAPIForcePIO=1: Force PIO mode for ATAPI devices (default for crazy fresh ISO image)
ATAForcePIO=1 : Force PIO mode for ATA devices
 
ATATrace=...
 
0: Trace ATA commands
1: Trace Errors
2: Trace ATAPI commands
3: Trace sense results (ATAPI only)
4: Trace buffer addresses
5: Trace controller/device initialization
 
Example: ATATrace="01235" enables all traces but buffer addresses
 
If you have troubles booting the newest Bluebottle release on your system, I would highly appreciate getting some trace outputs.
 
- Set "TraceMode=1" and "Init=" to enable tracing to the display in text mode
- Set "ATAForcePIO=1" and "ATAPIForcePIO=1" to force the use of PIO mode for all devices
- Set "ATATrace=5" for tracing controller/device initialization (or ATATrace=012345 for maximum details)
 
Also give "ATADetect=legacy" a try (combined with the settings above).
 
Regards,
Sven Stauber