Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:34:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA & 82C596 bug in 4.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <200004041034.MAA48408@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200004041019.MAA65929@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Apr 4, 2000 12:19:03 pm"
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It seems John Hay wrote: > > > > Yup VIA has a new version of the 82C596 chip, in their usual visdom they > > change the interface, but not the chip ID (I'll nominate VIA for the > > way they do versioning). However I have worked out the solution with > > Chris Wiener <cwiener@crlabs.com>, that had this problem also and > > kindly helped testing. Se the patch belowm try it and let me know.. > > Is it possible that something like that is happening with the 82C586 > too? The chip on our boards are all marked VT82C586B. I'll try the > patch although it seems to be for the 596? Well I wouldn't be surpriced at that :) > Should I just install 3.X and then copy a newer kernel over? 3.4 > install perfectly and dma also works without a problem if enabled > with flags 0xa0ff. (Although that is probably a slower dma?) I need a verbose boot log from the machine so I can see if VIA changed the chip ID or at least the revision on it... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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