From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 18:58:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679A337B65A for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA56033; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:58:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:58:43 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Gallagher, Mick" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: RZ100 ATA Controller Problem - Possible Workaround?? Message-ID: <20000418215843.D55844@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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. > > Apparently this controller was fairly common on early Pentium machines. > > And so what's the next step for anyone in possession of an RZ100? > > In order to help me figure out my options, here are some questions... > > 1) FreeBSD commitment to old hardware > > I guess its likely that development priorities are more focussed on newer > hardware problems, rather than problems associated with older kit. So am I > realistically going to see a fix for this anytime soon? > > 2) 3.4 Installation Floppies with 4.0 CDROM > > I'm new to FreeBSD, so please forgive me if I'm asking an outstandingly > stupid question: In the absence of a 4.0 RZ100 fix, can I use installation > floppies from a previous release to kick-start the installation from my 4.0 > CDROM? Or is the 4.0 CDROM going to overwrite the kernel drivers from the > floppy anyhow? > > 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)? > > Advice and opinions gratefully received. I have this problem too. See my thread, "Problem Booting 4.0R Floppy (ATA Driver?)." And note the date. The day after 4.0-RELEASE was announced. :( 3.4 was and is running again just fine on this machine (but it was a pain to reinstall it). I built my own kernels with some different ata options, but never got it to boot. Hell, I took off all IDE devices and compiled the kernel without ATA support and it still died. Has anyone put in a PR on this? Now that it seems pretty definate that it is the IDE controller, I will submit one if there isn't one already. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message