From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 29 04:50:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F308516A41C for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 04:50:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B28D43D48 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 04:50:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius.kas (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 27A5C184093 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:56 +0800 (WST) Received: from asclepius (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asclepius.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C2561840A0 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:56 +0800 (WST) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by asclepius.input (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6E3184096 for ; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:55 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id E168417F2D; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:54 +0800 (WST) Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.18]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADD317E72; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:54 +0800 (WST) Received: from zanchey (helo=localhost) by mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DcFkI-0007M4-00; Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:54 +0800 Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 12:49:53 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: Subhro In-Reply-To: <4298AFA5.2070805@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20050521160301.GA51988@legitimus> <20050528164553.GA19286@legitimus> <4298AFA5.2070805@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Formal (237/050526) X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Detect Hard [UCS 290904] X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: SysLog X-SpamTest-Info: Profile: Marking Spam - Subject (UCS) [02-08-04] X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 2.0.0 [0125], KAS/Release Cc: Remi Degruson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (SOLVED) 5.4RELEASE: problem with my ST34311A UDMA666 controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 04:50:06 -0000 Subhro, On Sat, 28 May 2005, Subhro wrote: > This is not something new or unexpected. Windows are Linux run happily > on a lot of garbage grade hardware. But FreeBSD is very fussy about > hardware. Thats the reason why a Linux box CAN create strange situations > due to hardware. But a FreeBSD box would not even be ready to boot up if > it does not find everything in tiptop condition. Actually, I'm not so sure. I have had at least one case where FreeBSD (in safe mode) has been the only thing that will boot with a dodgy HDD installed. Linux (a 2.4 kernel, admittedly) and Windows both refused to start. I was rather glad, too, because it was the only way I could get data off that disk! Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au