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Subject: Re: Chicken vs Egg 
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:44:49 -0800
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kelly" <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org>
To: "3Phase" <Phase3@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 04:53 PM
Subject: Re: Chicken vs Egg 
> "3Phase" writes:
> >  FreeBSD 4.0 A full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System.
<snip>
> > ad0: 43967MB <Maxtor54610H6> [8933/16/631] at ata0 master using BIOSPIO
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.0R/notes.html says:
> > A new ATA/ATAPI driver has been implemented. The aim of this new
<snip>

Thanks, David, that sound encouraging!

FreeBSD installed and ran but would have hit its head eventually
using the specs it got from the BIOS.

I found the drive specs from Maxtor and sure enough they were
wrong.  Putting in the correct geometry nuked the drive so I
re-installed everything using the correct geometry.

The correct info for a Maxtor model #54610H6:
| Cyl     | Heads | Sec | Capacity |   MaxLBA |
|16383|   16      |  63   | 46103MB| 90045648|


I found and read the source for the PIIX3 then called support.
Basically, my Deskpro doesn't do DMA for doodly.
It has a 233Mhz PPro and the lastest BIOS patch but PIIX3 chips
are problem children; BIOSPIO for the HD and PIO4 for the CD is
all it will do reliably. It locks up if I force DMA with sysctl.

Right now I can get a CHAP login with my ISP but I can't
send or receive e-mail and news.  I'll go through the logs later
but the important parts are working again.

Thanks for the link, I'll think about upgrading after I get this version
locked down!

-3P



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