Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 9 Jun 2001 05:46:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      feh@fehcom.de
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/27987: New ATA Driver failure with VIA Southbridge VT82686A
Message-ID:  <200106091246.f59Ckg168423@freefall.freebsd.org>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

>Number:         27987
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       New ATA Driver failure with VIA Southbridge VT82686A
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 09 05:50:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Erwin Hoffmann
>Release:        4.1, 4.2, 4.3
>Organization:
FEHCom
>Environment:
(Can't do it!)
>Description:
I am currently running FreeBSD 3.5.1 on a Gericom NB with AMD K6-2/500
196 MB RAM, VIA integrated chipset (Trident Cyber Blade etc.). Disc is
Toshiba MK6015MAP (6 GB). 
In an attempt to upgrade to 4.1/4.2/4.3 I harvest a complete desaster:

- The installation succeeds with some write failures.
- After the first reboot the file system is "mangeled" and the system 
  starts with a default shell, since even /etc/fstab is not evaluated. 
- Strange enough, some parts of /bin, /sbin, /usr/.. are intact thus some
  command work.
- No chance to fix it manually via fsck - to many failures (like
  (double used inodes etc.).
- The NB works fine with WinNT and FreeBSD 3.5.1.
- Pls. remember: The VIA Southbridge VT82686A (Rev. 0x06) is not the
  VT82686_B_.
- The problem is independent whether I raise on the BSD slices more 
  filesystems (eg. /, /usr,..). Currently I have simply a swap and a /.


>How-To-Repeat:
Simply reinstall 4.x on that Notebook.
>Fix:
Simply stay with the old ATA-Drivers/FreeBSD Release.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200106091246.f59Ckg168423>