From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 19 9: 6:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955EF37B415; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020619160554.XBTV1547.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:05:54 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5JG5rUw044696; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5JG5rh0044695; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206191605.g5JG5rh0044695@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Stuart Barkley Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Errata on CDROM installs (was Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release) In-Reply-To: <20020618215318.G76898-100000@precipice.4gh.net> References: <20020618215318.G76898-100000@precipice.4gh.net> Comments: In-reply-to Stuart Barkley message dated "Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:06:21 -0400." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_2025361872P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:05:52 -0700 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 --==_Exmh_2025361872P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Stuart Barkley wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > Could someone tell me if this actually works or not? I have never > > seen the problem first-hand, so some of you folks who've actually > > experienced it need to say if I've got it right or not. > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/doc/errata/article.pdf > > I've just subscribed to -stable, so haven't seen all of the previous > discussion on the CD-ROM installation problem. However, this > procedure for enabling CD-ROM based installation did not work for me. You might want to take a couple minutes and check the stable@ archives to get some context. The problem being discussed is one that appeared between 4.5-RELEASE and 4.6-RELEASE. > I'm doing a floppy boot install on a 5+ year old Digital P133 machine > with SCSI disk drives and a Creative 32x CD-ROM drive. I've never > been able to get this setup to work under dma mode (but haven't really > tried all that hard). Has your CD-ROM drive ever worked? If no, then I think this is a different problem than the one that's been hitting people (which apparently just showed up in 4-STABLE after a mega-merge of the ata(4) driver). > If this current workaround does help a large portion of users out, it > would be good to get something on the errata web page. As further > understanding of the problem occurs the errata page could be updated. That's why I maintain the errata document. :-) Thanks for your feedback, Bruce. --==_Exmh_2025361872P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9EKvg2MoxcVugUsMRAhd/AKDyuxj/KogTq9/oLCT3NU1RJnaR9wCfca/C tZc6yik03WTOfzhlo07bEY8= =6gco -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2025361872P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message