From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 31 10:25:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.abacus.co.uk (mailgate.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F48237B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from abacus.co.uk (pcantony.bl.abacus.co.uk [194.130.48.111]) by mailgate.abacus.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27972; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:23:21 GMT Message-ID: <39FF0E55.8B83C9B0@abacus.co.uk> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:24:21 +0000 From: Antony T Curtis Organization: Abacus Polar PLC (UK) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: missing Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro hangs on reboot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG missing wrote: > > I had a similiar prob on a Dell PowerEdge ... > I set 'reserved memory' to 'none'. > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have just installed 4.1.1-RELEASE on eight Compaq Deskpro EP with no > > exotic hardware (dmesg output attached). Now I have two problems with > > these machines. First, any access to the floppy disk causes a complete > > lockup. I have to compile a kernel with DDB for finding more data > > about this problem. I have found that if I set the BIOS settings for the hard drives to be in PIO mode, bootups work fine. FreeBSD then enables UDMA66 mode. I am using a Compaq Deskpro EP -- ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222 Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670 > UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message