Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:56:50 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems installing FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on UltraSPARC IIe Message-ID: <20050408195650.GA3738@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <p0621022dbe7c8a408739@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20050405174753.GA22120@web2.merit.edu> <20050408165822.GB81280@dragon.NUXI.org> <p0621022dbe7c8a408739@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:37:48PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 9:58 AM -0700 4/8/05, David O'Brien wrote:
> >Of 5 40GB drives I tried, only an IBM IC35L040AVVN07 worked (has
> >IC35L040AVVN07-0/VA2OAF0C firmware) works OK (no *_DMA timeouts)
> >at ATA66.
>
> Did you test the other drives under solaris, or only under FreeBSD?
>
> It might be that other hard drives will work better once the newest
> ATA support is committed.
Only FreeBSD -- this is my FreeBSD Sparc64 machine. I dual boot Solaris
at times, but I wasn't installing Solaris on it until I had a good
FreeBSD installation.
I did also try ATAmkIII{j,k} with the same results.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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