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From: "Philip Murray" <me@philth.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Boot panics w/ Promise ATA100 and Maxtor 160GB
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:49:33 +1300
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> >
> > I'm having trouble getting FreeBSD 4.5RC to boot with the mentioned
hardware.
> >
> > If the drive is plugged into the controller, I get a page fault on boot
when it is detecting adX. If I unplug the drive (it doesn't appear in
/etc/fstab) then it detects ad0 (attached to the motherboard) and then seems
to lock up.
> >
> > Is there a setting I need to change, or is this a bug? It does it with
the latest source (cvsup'd this morning) follow RELENG_4
>
> I could easily be very wrong here, but I was under the impression that
you'd
> be wanting ATA133 for that disk.
>


Yeah, but I didn't have an ATA133 controller spare and it should still work
with an ATA100 controller. FreeBSD boots fine with 4.3 and 4.4 but only
detects the first 128G.

4.5 adds 48bit addressing support, alas it seems slightly broken

Cheers

Philip Murray
me@philth.net.nz


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