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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: kern/24092: Disk data corruption using FreeBSD_4_2_0_RELEASE
In-Reply-To: <200101062010.f06KA4S39567@freefall.freebsd.org> from Martin Birgmeier at "Jan 6, 2001 12:10:04 pm"
To: Martin.Birgmeier@aon.at (Martin Birgmeier)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:15:16 +0100 (CET)
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It seems Martin Birgmeier wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/24092; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Martin Birgmeier <Martin.Birgmeier@aon.at>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: kern/24092: Disk data corruption using FreeBSD_4_2_0_RELEASE
> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 21:05:24 +0100
> 
>  Quite (or not so?) unbelievably, upgrading the motherboard's BIOS
>  seems to do the trick: From a7v1004c.zip to a7v1005a.zip.
>  
>  I'll watch it some more and post a final note when everything
>  seems indeed doing well again.
>  
>  I guess that now some chipset registers are initialized `more
>  correctly'. Would be nice if FreeBSD could do that instead of
>  relying on the BIOS, but I understand the task involved.

Well, we might not even have a chance here, some timings depends
on the motherboards physical layout, components used etc, and we
have no info on such matters, nor can we get them for every 
motherboard out there.


-Søren


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