From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 10:46:38 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 4EDE116A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-macgregors.org (82-33-62-105.cable.ubr06.stav.blueyonder.co.uk [82.33.62.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6720043D1D for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd.macgregor@blueyonder.co.uk) X-Urban-Legend: Mail headers contain urban legends Received: from fire (fire.macgregor [192.168.32.100]) by the-macgregors.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2NIkaF0020560 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:46:36 GMT Message-Id: <200403231846.i2NIkaF0020560@the-macgregors.org> From: "Rob MacGregor" To: Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:46:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Thread-Index: AcQRBo04XS0VdESpSBWVhPFB6q+vDwAAFIaA In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Subject: RE: Problem with FreeBSD (4.9-REL to 5.2.1-REL) on NForce 2 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, 23 Mar 2004 18:46:38 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian@elischer.org] > > We had one here and 4.2 oinstalled ok.. > to get anything newer we had to disable DMA on the ata drives. > (types something in the boot line but I forget what..) (Don't have hte > machine any more) > (and afterwards we added it to /boot/loader.conf) Well, nice to know that it *can* work. Even in safe mode, with DMA disabled and the drive running in PIO mode it still locks up on probing devices. I may just dig out a 4.2 ISO and give it a whirl. The "bright" side is that I discovered forcedeth, a clean write of a network driver for the NForce chipsets. It's only for Linux, but that at least means that it's possible for FreeBSD :) -- Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!