Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:59:39 +0800 From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: Robert Downes <nullentropy@lineone.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board Message-ID: <40BD50AB.7050606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net> References: <40BB6D84.70202@lineone.net>
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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 <DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> > 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
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