Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:33:30 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Volker Stolz) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata Message-ID: <200011021033.LAA94206@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20001102095750.A568@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> from Volker Stolz at "Nov 2, 2000 09:57:50 am"
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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 retrofitted. Forget about it, buy a new Promise or whatever if you really need that board, a software only fix is _not_ possible, no matter what linux might tell you.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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