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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata
In-Reply-To: <20001102095750.A568@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> from Volker Stolz at "Nov 2, 2000 09:57:50 am"
To: stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Volker Stolz)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:33:30 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Volker Stolz wrote:
> The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is
> severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for
> Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board
> should be a couple of years old, it's for regular Pentium-I).
> 
> Could anyone comment on this to get it working with FreeBSD?
> sysinstalls gets write-errors after a couple of kilobytes, and
> when running an already installed system, mount/fsck bomb with
> sig 11, after that you find yourself in single-user mode with
> every command (including 'reboot'!) yielding a SIGILL.

Well, that chip is so broken by design, no software workaround can
help its misery, a hardware fix exists, but cant (easily) be 
retrofitted. Forget about it, buy a new Promise or whatever if
you really need that board, a software only fix is _not_ possible,
no matter what linux might tell you....

-Søren


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