From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 7: 5:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA1E37B9DB for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA21557 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:05:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:05:18 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RZ100 ATA Controller Problem - Possible Workaround?? Message-ID: <20000418150518.A20743@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mick.gallagher@roke.co.uk on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:59:15PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:59:15PM +0100, Gallagher, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently wrote to this list with a mail under the subject "Big > Installation Problems". > > Basically, so far as I understand, FreeBSD 4.0 won't install on my machine > because of driver problems with the RZ100 ATA controller. Must admit, you're not the only one with problems, my 4.0 install hangs whenever it tried to fsck or newfs the partitions on install. This is with the VIA MVP3 chipset. > 3) Back to 3.4 > > Is my only realistic course of action to install 3.4 (is it 3.4?) and forget > 4.0 (for now)? That's what I'll be doing and then sticking to 3.4-STABLE until I've found that 4.0 actually works on my PC. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message