Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:08:45 +0200 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <20001027170845.A1259@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <001b01c04024$68c4c460$0100a8c0@veldy.net> References: <E13p9x5-0002oM-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il> <20001027070229.A3341@elvis.mu.org> <001b01c04024$68c4c460$0100a8c0@veldy.net>
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:44:28AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I am also seeing BTX failures, but only from manual commands. The lsdev > command will cause BTX to fail (and halt) when it scans my CDROM/DVD. I am > using 4.1.1-RELEASE. I have a ABIT KA7-100 board (which uses the VIA686A > chipset for IDE access). > I recognize my exact problem. I have a Abit KT7 with a dvdrom, and lsdev crashes the loader. I had not related this to the DVD however. In any case FreeBSD is loded perfectly fine from the DVD as well as the hard disk. Only lsdev crashes the loader. By the way, i always have this annoying problem that the same machine is unable to format floppies under freebsd, while it formats them fine under Linux and Windows. I have been told that other have the same problem on various machines, while one guy with the same mobo said me he does not have it. Also i have seen comments in the CVS tree at ata.c about the ata driver stealing an ioport of the floppy drive. Does somebody know the present status of the question, and if it is valuable to upgrade (i run 4.1, it is at home so upgrades are painful)? -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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