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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:33:08 -0500
From:      Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com>
To:        "Carroll, D. (Danny)" <Danny.Carroll@mail.ing.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.6-RELEASE & VMware 3.0
Message-ID:  <3D10B244.60301@stevenfettig.com>
References:  <6C506EA550443D44A061432F1E92EA4C6C52B6@ing.com>

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Carroll, D. (Danny) wrote:
> :I tried what you mentioned in VMWare (my version is 3.1) and 
> :still have 
> :problems with it locking up - not in the same place, but same result 
> :(even using SCSI).  You mentioned a "recent ATA" problem, but I don't 
> :understand whether you are relating to FreeBSD 4.6 or VMWare...
> :Just curious.
> 
> Try giving direct access to the CDRom drive..  Ant turning on DMA access
> for the Cd-Rom in FreeBSD..
> That is what worked for me.
>

Pardon my ignorance if it really shines through on this one: How do you 
turn on DMA for the CD-Rom in FreeBSD if one can't get past the part 
where the installation probes for devices (and locks up at that point)? 
  I don't have the same problem with 4.5 -- it installs without any 
problems.

> Do a search for hw.ata in this list and -questions...  There has been
> lots of talk about it.
> 
> What is the Host OS?
> 
> -D


Tho host OS is Windows 2000 Server.  It's my R&D box for Windows and I 
also test some stuff using VMWare when I run out of R&D boxes for 
FreeBSD.  Not my first choice, but it is nice for running multiple OS's.

As a side note - at this point I'm not all that worried about running 
4.6  To be honest, I decided to install it on my R&D box along with a 
laptop I am trying to revive only to do ipsec and backup testing...  I 
don't see what advantage 4.6 gives me over 4.5 for what I am doing...

Steve


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