Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:40:21 -0800 (PST) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ATA controller buggy chip: can I install 5.3 ? Message-ID: <20050302084021.233.qmail@web54010.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi, I have a very old Pentium (58.18-MHz 586-class CPU), which is now running 4.10-Release happily. I'm considering to replace 4.10 by the more recent 5.3 or 5.4. However, I now have following in the dmesg output, which complains about ATA controller, but seems to use a workaround: ------------------------------- FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 CPU: Pentium/P5 (58.18-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x517 Stepping = 7 Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> real memory = 25165824 (24576K bytes) avail memory = 19197952 (18748K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0551000. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug atapci0: <RZ 100? ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss possible> at device 1.0 on pci0 atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS [...] ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 [...] ad0: 520MB <ST3660A> [1057/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ------------------------------- I plan is to install FreeBSD 5.X on a bigger harddisk (2 GB) on another, somewhat newer PC with more Ram, and then put the harddisk in the old PC. I ask this question, because the two PCs are at opposite ends of the world, and I must send the harddisk with 5.X by regular mail. So I like to know in advance whether 5.X is really going to work, given that it can run 4.10 right now. Thanks, Rob. __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
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