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Date:      Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:19:36 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATA & 82C596 bug in 4.0-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <200004040419.GAA58585@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <200004040200.MAA00911@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> from Warren Toomey at "Apr 4, 2000 12:00:29 pm"

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> 
> I tried to install 4.0-RELEASE on a completely new PC system, but the
> install failed with ATA write errors and resets. I moved the disk to another
> PC and installed 4.0 via manual disklabels, newfs, bin + src extraction.
> 4.0 booted fine on this system (a Dell Optiplex GX1).
> 
> Back on the new system, a 993AS motherboard with VIA 82C596 ATA33 controller,
> and <ST313021A> [25232/16/63] 13Gig disk at ata0-master using UDMA33. It
> boots and then takes out the root partition, again with ATA write errors and
> resets.
...
> Can anybody tell me if this 89C596 support is still experimental, or
> alternatively are there any recent patches/changes which I should pick up?
> I'm happy to cvsup either from 4.0-stable or 4.0-current if it would help
> to fix this problem.

Your question should include the VIA 82C586. :-) The answer will depend
on who answer it. If it is Soren or one of the lucky ones that have it
working, they will say everything is fine. For the rest of us with
machines that don't want to install or that want to eat your disk if you
install it somewhere else first, the answer is probably different. :-(

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za


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