From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 13:25:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BF216A54F for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949B143D5D for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nullentropy@lineone.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (orbital.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.215.230]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6974F254287 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:25:11 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <40BE37A9.6020609@lineone.net> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:25:13 +0100 From: Robert Downes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040601 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org References: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> <40BD50AB.7050606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <40BD50AB.7050606@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 20:25:15 -0000 David Xu wrote: > This sounds like a cable problem, are you using ATA33 cable ? > Sometimes ago, I have installed 5.2.1 on EPIA-MII without any problem. > I will try if I can install it on my EPIA-SP and CN400. As you mention a cable, and seeing as I had a third cable ready to try (using the short 2.5" to 3.5" adapter), I switched cables to the HDD and booted FreeBSD 5.1. And, to my genuine surprise, I'm now running in UDMA100 rather than PIO. The only problem now is how noise UDMA100 is compared to the sedate PIO. A gentle, slow crunchy noise has become an eager, fast tearing noise. Seeing as this is an improvement on things in 5.1 so far, I'm going to risk everything (well, this bare installation with no user files) and buildworld and kernel for 5.2.1 and see if I get wild chaos, or if this new cable appeases the dark lords of data throughput. (I'm quite pissed about the original cable... I paid money for that, and it doesn't work. Now I'm using the freebie adapter and IDE cable that came with the motherboard anyway.) -- Bob