From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 05:36:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9350D16A4D0 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB6843D5D for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 05:36:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i51CaPE8000591; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:36:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <40BC7846.2090300@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:36:22 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040520) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Downes References: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> In-Reply-To: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:36:45 -0000 Robert Downes wrote: > I have had an awful weekend trying to make sense of wild errors that > FreeBSD has been throwing on my VIA EPIA M1000 board. > > 5.0 seemed to be going fine, until I tried to make buildworld using > 5.2.1 sources. Then it crashed and reset halfway through. The second > attempt worked, so I built and installed a 5.2.1 kernel. Then the fun > began. > > 5.2.1 would not accept my hard disk. Attepmting to boot normally, or > mounting drives after booting into single-user-mode, would cause a > stream of errors. > > Thinking the crash had screwed my hard disk data structure, I did a > fresh install of 5.2.1 from the release ISO from the FTP site. Booted > fine on a Pentium 4 machine, but went beserk again on my EPIA board. > > The error I'm getting looks like this: > > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=11 error=84 > LBA=4127103 > > Such messages would stream up the screen, the drive crunching wildly. > Any successful access (booting from a kernel.old 5.0 kernel, for > instance) would complain about the filesystem being dirty, and leave > the system read-only until fsck was run. fsck would run, but would > find dozens of assorted errors which it could not correct. > > I posted this to freebsd-questions, and someone replied with something > along the lines of 'me too' - they say that they can run 5.2.1 on a > Compact Flash card, but will get wild problems too if they attempt to > boot it from any hard disk. > > Also, should it be of any interest, I can only run 5.0 if I disable > UDMA access to the Primary IDE Master in my BIOS settings. FreeBSD > obligingly drops to PIO mode. Any ideas on this? Do you have a 40-wire cable plugged into a drive that wants to use an 80-wire cable? I assume you mean you have an M10000, right? That same drive works fine in a different system? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------