From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 20:55:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0BA37B4C5 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAF4v4978899; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:57:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:57:04 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Edwin chan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: try run 4.1.1 on a old chipset but new harddisk don't work. In-Reply-To: <000d01c04ea4$1ca2ac80$5801a8c0@suntop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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