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Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 08:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/27987: New ATA Driver failure with VIA Southbridge VT82686A
Message-ID:  <200106091540.f59Fe3f91611@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/27987; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To: feh@fehcom.de
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/27987: New ATA Driver failure with VIA Southbridge VT82686A
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:33:14 +0200 (CEST)

 It seems feh@fehcom.de wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         27987
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       New ATA Driver failure with VIA Southbridge VT82686A
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 09 05:50:01 PDT 2001
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Erwin Hoffmann
 > >Release:        4.1, 4.2, 4.3
 > >Organization:
 > FEHCom
 > >Environment:
 > (Can't do it!)
 > >Description:
 > I am currently running FreeBSD 3.5.1 on a Gericom NB with AMD K6-2/500
 > 196 MB RAM, VIA integrated chipset (Trident Cyber Blade etc.). Disc is
 > Toshiba MK6015MAP (6 GB). 
 > In an attempt to upgrade to 4.1/4.2/4.3 I harvest a complete desaster:
 > 
 > - The installation succeeds with some write failures.
 > - After the first reboot the file system is "mangeled" and the system 
 >   starts with a default shell, since even /etc/fstab is not evaluated. 
 > - Strange enough, some parts of /bin, /sbin, /usr/.. are intact thus some
 >   command work.
 > - No chance to fix it manually via fsck - to many failures (like
 >   (double used inodes etc.).
 > - The NB works fine with WinNT and FreeBSD 3.5.1.
 > - Pls. remember: The VIA Southbridge VT82686A (Rev. 0x06) is not the
 >   VT82686_B_.
 > - The problem is independent whether I raise on the BSD slices more 
 >   filesystems (eg. /, /usr,..). Currently I have simply a swap and a /.
 
 Hmm, the '686A is supported in 4.3 so thats not the problem, you should
 try to disable DMA on 4.3 and see if that solves the problem.
 
 -Søren

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