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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata
In-Reply-To: <200011030019.eA30IoW24898@emu.os2.ami.com.au> from John Summerfield at "Nov 3, 2000 08:21:08 am"
To: summer@OS2.ami.com.au (John Summerfield)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:24:57 +0100 (CET)
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It seems John Summerfield wrote:
> > 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 
> 
> 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.

Nope, there are not, even the manufacturer agrees to that....

-Søren


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