Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:24:57 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: summer@OS2.ami.com.au (John Summerfield) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata Message-ID: <200011030724.IAA90175@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200011030019.eA30IoW24898@emu.os2.ami.com.au> from John Summerfield at "Nov 3, 2000 08:21:08 am"
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It seems John Summerfield wrote: > > It seems Volker Stolz wrote: > > > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is > > > severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for > > > Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board > > > should be a couple of years old, it's for regular Pentium-I). > > > > > > Could anyone comment on this to get it working with FreeBSD? > > > sysinstalls gets write-errors after a couple of kilobytes, and > > > when running an already installed system, mount/fsck bomb with > > > sig 11, after that you find yourself in single-user mode with > > > every command (including 'reboot'!) yielding a SIGILL. > > > > Well, that chip is so broken by design, no software workaround can > > help its misery, a hardware fix exists, but cant (easily) be > > As Volker notes; Linux can work round it. So can OS/2. I don't know the > details, but there ARE modes where it works. Nope, there are not, even the manufacturer agrees to that.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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