From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 20:57:19 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 E2A3916A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exchhz01.viatech.com.cn (ip-40-162-97-218.anlai.com [218.97.162.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090CA43D46 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (DAVIDWNT [10.4.1.99]) by exchhz01.viatech.com.cn with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id MB4CC7Z6; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:57:10 +0800 Message-ID: <40BD50AB.7050606@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:59:39 +0800 From: David Xu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Downes References: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> In-Reply-To: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board 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: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 03:57:20 -0000 Robert Downes wrote: > I have had an awful weekend trying to make sense of wild errors that > FreeBSD has been throwing on my VIA EPIA M1000 board. > > 5.0 seemed to be going fine, until I tried to make buildworld using > 5.2.1 sources. Then it crashed and reset halfway through. The second > attempt worked, so I built and installed a 5.2.1 kernel. Then the fun > began. > > 5.2.1 would not accept my hard disk. Attepmting to boot normally, or > mounting drives after booting into single-user-mode, would cause a > stream of errors. > > Thinking the crash had screwed my hard disk data structure, I did a > fresh install of 5.2.1 from the release ISO from the FTP site. Booted > fine on a Pentium 4 machine, but went beserk again on my EPIA board. > > The error I'm getting looks like this: > > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=11 error=84 > LBA=4127103 > > Such messages would stream up the screen, the drive crunching wildly. > Any successful access (booting from a kernel.old 5.0 kernel, for > instance) would complain about the filesystem being dirty, and leave the > > system read-only until fsck was run. fsck would run, but would find > dozens of assorted errors which it could not correct. > > I posted this to freebsd-questions, and someone replied with something > along the lines of 'me too' - they say that they can run 5.2.1 on a > Compact Flash card, but will get wild problems too if they attempt to > boot it from any hard disk. > > Also, should it be of any interest, I can only run 5.0 if I disable UDMA > > access to the Primary IDE Master in my BIOS settings. FreeBSD obligingly > > drops to PIO mode. Any ideas on this? > This sounds like a cable problem, are you using ATA33 cable ? Sometimes ago, I have installed 5.2.1 on EPIA-MII without any problem. I will try if I can install it on my EPIA-SP and CN400. David Xu