From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 21:59:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.suntop.com (unknown [61.140.208.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF0837B4CF for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from rep1 (rep1.suntop.com [192.168.1.88]) by gate.suntop.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA06359 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:59:42 +0800 Message-ID: <000f01c04ec9$40f0f4a0$5801a8c0@suntop.com> From: "Edwin chan" To: References: Subject: Re: try run 4.1.1 on a old chipset but new harddisk don't work. Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:59:41 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG but I runing a lastest FreeBSD4.1.1 yet. I think it try probe UDMA harddisk and failed back to PIO mode. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Charalabidis To: Edwin chan Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: Re: try run 4.1.1 on a old chipset but new harddisk don't work. > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Edwin chan wrote: > > > I have a old IBM pc, usually, I runing slackware on it with no problem. but > > recently, I try run freebsd4.1.1 on it but don't work. > > It's P5 class CPU, 24M RAM, old SIS chipset 4G Seagate U10harddisk. > > Freebsd4.1.1 know my harddisk support UDMA(but I know chipset not). The > > error messages mean try to use UDMA IDE mode, then locked, a few times, try > > some times it can go back to use PIO mode, and continue boot, most times it > > just locked, can't continue boot. > > BTW, I installed Freebsd4.1.1 on my new computer then move harddisk to this > > one. > > Have any way to solve this problem ? > > > Try using the latest STABLE. I had similar problems with an old SiS > chipset and a UDMA HD which automagically fixed themselves when I used a > recent STABLE instead of 4.1.1-RELEASE. > > hth > > -ac > > -- > ============================================================== > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > ============================================================== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message