From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 25 9: 2:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay3.inwind.it (relay3.inwind.it [212.141.53.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF69537B423 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 09:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.172.63) by relay3.inwind.it (5.5.029) id 3AE401CE0084EC35; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:02:39 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:05:18 GMT Message-ID: <20010525.16051800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Athlon Power and FreeBSD-STABLE experiences. To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Ron Klinkien References: <000d01c0e50e$dc7f3180$9601a8c0@denhartogh.nl> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 5/25/01, 1:35:24 PM, "Ron Klinkien" wrote regard= ing Athlon Power and FreeBSD-STABLE experiences.: > I have no questions but just a write down of my experience > with installing fbsd on a fast new system, maybe it helps others. > After browsing through some hardware forums I choose for: > ABit KT7A, Athlon TBird 1.2Ghz/133FSB, 256MB PC133 mem > and IBM Deskstar 60GXP (IC35L040) 40Gb ATA100 disk. > Tried an old FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE CD and it installed fine > strange enough. But after rebooting I got "UDMA ICRC switching back to= PIO4" > errors. ;-((((( > Searching the fbsd archives I found alot of people with VIA 686 chips > which had the same problems. Forcing to PIO mode is a no-no for me, > -I didn't buy an UDMA100 disk/ctrl for nothing.- > And using spiffy new hardware and correct 80-wire cables and everythin= g, > I decided to upgrade via cvsup to 4.3-STABLE, and build world/kernel, > this all went fine. (With PIO mode enabled temporary) > And after rebooting all the UDMA problems were gone!! Is anyone currently running 4-S on this hardware, with **IDE** disks? I know about installing/booting problems affecting 4.3-R: the VIA 686 chip did not work correctly with IDE disks. It seems that I should write "did not use to work correctly", and "the ASUS A7M266 M.B. works fine under -STABLE. Am I missing something ? TIA, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message