From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 19:13:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from os2.ami.com.au (os2.ami.com.au [203.55.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254A837B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from emu.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:root@c0s21.ami.com.au [203.55.31.86]) by os2.ami.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA08001 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:13:19 +0800 Received: from possum.os2.ami.com.au (IDENT:summer@possum.os2.ami.com.au [192.168.1.6]) by emu.os2.ami.com.au (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eA30IoW24898 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:19:45 +0800 Message-Id: <200011030019.eA30IoW24898@emu.os2.ami.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.Org Subject: Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:33:30 +0100." <200011021033.LAA94206@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 08:21:08 +0800 From: John Summerfield Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 boar= d > > 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 = As Volker notes; Linux can work round it. So can OS/2. I don't know the details, but there ARE modes where it works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message