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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:10:03 GMT
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0
Message-ID:  <200804231410.m3NEA34m076009@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR amd64/122624; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>,
 Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>,
 freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
 Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject: Re: amd64/122624: unusable mininal installation of FreeBSD-7.0
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:45:51 -0400

 On Tuesday 22 April 2008 03:32:11 pm Peter Jeremy wrote:
 > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:06:32PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
 > >This time I was able to login and check libcrypto:
 > >MD5 (/lib/libcrypto.so.5) = ee943528c8046145b60359f50f45fbf4
 > >
 > >And as suggested by Gavin, I rebooted and checked things
 > >again.
 > >
 > >Upon reboot, the error was now different (relocation type changed),
 > >and the checksum for libcrypto.so.5 changed!
 > >MD5 (/lib/libcrypto.so.5) = a24993818d2b888df053428b48a18eac
 >
 > ...
 >
 > >Maybe it's a problem with the disk driver in FreeBSD-7 for
 > >this chipset? (dmesg attached) ... it seems like reading and
 > >writing to disk is the problem ... but this only happens
 > >with FreeBSD-7.0. Any suggestion as to how I can further debug this?
 >
 > ...
 >
 > >atapci0: <ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 controller> port
 > > 0xecb0-0xecb7,0xeca0-0xeca3,0xecb8-0xecbf,0xeca4-0xeca7,0xece0-0xecef mem
 > > 0xefdfe000-0xefdfffff irq 6 at device 14.0 on pci3
 >
 > There are a number of threads in -current discussing the brokenness of
 > that chipset.  The impression I get is that 7.0-RELEASE will never work
 > for you but there are some fixes in 7.0 post -RELEASE.  A sample is:
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084272.html
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-March/084075.html
 
 The 'SWKSMIO' part of the patch I posted might fix the issues with PATA-mode.
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin



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