Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:03:37 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-R installer bombs because I can't turn UDMA off... Message-ID: <20010314160337.26978@hydrogen.funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <3AAFF67E.4D035C8A@urx.com>; from Kent Stewart on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800 References: <20010313233604.59613@hydrogen.funkthat.com> <3AAF3125.6153EA6B@urx.com> <20010314112930.36100@hydrogen.funkthat.com> <3AAFF67E.4D035C8A@urx.com>
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Kent Stewart scribbled this message on Mar 14: [lot of stuff deleted] > If you are using a 80-wire cable, you can try using an old 40-wire to > force UDMA-33. If things like buildworld work, you are probably ummm.. UDMA-33 is all the VT82C586A supoprt, and that's what I'm having issues with.. this is a K6-225 which was LONG before UDMA-66 even entered the scene... I'm using a 40-wire cabel, etc.. > loading your system just fine. Because of concerns like yours, they I wish I could even attempt a buildworld, but I can't even get past the frigging installer... > were after SOS to load the kernel and etc in PIO mode and then switch > to dma. I don't know what the status is on that. You can also try if it was configurable at boot time, it wouldn't matter... you just put the lines in loader.conf or what ever, and things work.. > using a Promise Ultra66 or Ultra100 pci card. It will probably work > with the drive just fine. If it doesn't, trash the drive or sell it to > someone that it won't matter to. It isn't going to get better with > time. FWIW, I have a new AMD 900 on a KT7 mb that has a Promise card > installed in it. so?? this is hardware that FreeBSD should support, or we are killing around 50% of the hardware that is in current use.. and I don't want to spend money and waste a PCI slot on an extra card for something I don't need simply because FreeBSD doesn't run... > BTW, I just noticed that I have a typo in the file name. It is > sysctl.conf. I dropped the "f" when I typed my first response. don't worry, I never noticed... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "Thank God I'm an atheist, that'd just be confusing." -- cmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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