Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:05:52 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Errata on CDROM installs (was Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release) Message-ID: <200206191605.g5JG5rh0044695@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20020618215318.G76898-100000@precipice.4gh.net> References: <20020618215318.G76898-100000@precipice.4gh.net>
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--==_Exmh_2025361872P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Stuart Barkley wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > Could someone tell me if this actually works or not? I have never > > seen the problem first-hand, so some of you folks who've actually > > experienced it need to say if I've got it right or not. > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/doc/errata/article.pdf > > I've just subscribed to -stable, so haven't seen all of the previous > discussion on the CD-ROM installation problem. However, this > procedure for enabling CD-ROM based installation did not work for me. You might want to take a couple minutes and check the stable@ archives to get some context. The problem being discussed is one that appeared between 4.5-RELEASE and 4.6-RELEASE. > I'm doing a floppy boot install on a 5+ year old Digital P133 machine > with SCSI disk drives and a Creative 32x CD-ROM drive. I've never > been able to get this setup to work under dma mode (but haven't really > tried all that hard). Has your CD-ROM drive ever worked? If no, then I think this is a different problem than the one that's been hitting people (which apparently just showed up in 4-STABLE after a mega-merge of the ata(4) driver). > If this current workaround does help a large portion of users out, it > would be good to get something on the errata web page. As further > understanding of the problem occurs the errata page could be updated. That's why I maintain the errata document. :-) Thanks for your feedback, Bruce. --==_Exmh_2025361872P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9EKvg2MoxcVugUsMRAhd/AKDyuxj/KogTq9/oLCT3NU1RJnaR9wCfca/C tZc6yik03WTOfzhlo07bEY8= =6gco -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2025361872P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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