Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 08:21:08 +0800 From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.Org Subject: Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata Message-ID: <200011030019.eA30IoW24898@emu.os2.ami.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:33:30 %2B0100." <200011021033.LAA94206@freebsd.dk>
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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 boar= d > > 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 = As Volker notes; Linux can work round it. So can OS/2. I don't know the details, but there ARE modes where it works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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