From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 02:57:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9594E16A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:57:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723D043D53 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 61C1F72DDD; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDB572DCB; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:57:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:57:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Rob In-Reply-To: <20050330232637.48092.qmail@web54007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050330185403.I68982@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20050330232637.48092.qmail@web54007.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:57:34 -0000 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Rob wrote: > > So its said again .. > > > > Use a different ATA controller. Please. The RZ1000 > > series should not be > > used under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER. > > I've got not really a choice here. This is a 10 year > old Pentium-1 PC, which I would like to use. I'm not > a hardware expert, but your advice would mean to > throw this PC away? Or can I replace the ATA > controller easily myself? Any PCI ATA controller will work, and that machine probably has ISA slots so you could use an ISA ATA controller if you were desperate. I put my P90 out to pasture since once the 2GB disk dies in it I'll have to use flash media to get a disk the onboard controller will support. So I replaced it with a small fanless Soekris :) > I have already put this machine under moderate load > and recompiled/installed a new world/kernel without > any problems. Apparently 4.11 knows how to bypass > the flaws of this buggy ATA controller. At least > that's my impression. > Would 5.3 or 5.4 do this as-good here? AFAIK the RZ1000 bug was that it would corrupt data to the slave channel if the primary channel was also active. If you only have one device then you may not be able to reproduce it. Do you have verbose boot output from the non-working 5.x boot? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org