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Subject: ATA controller buggy chip: can I install 5.3 ?
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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.


	
		
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