Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:50:53 +0100 From: "Gallagher, Mick" <mick.gallagher@roke.co.uk> To: "'cjclark@home.com'" <cjclark@home.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, 'Joshua Swink' <jswink@pacbell.net> Subject: RE: RZ100 ATA Controller Problem - Possible Workaround?? Message-ID: <D76D503DE976D1119C7E00A0C944D87501CA7F5B@rsys002a.private.roke.co.uk>
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Hi Crist, Yes, a related problem report exists. See kern/17400 Thanks, Mick -----Original Message----- From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com] Sent: 19 April 2000 02:59 To: Gallagher, Mick Cc: 'questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: RZ100 ATA Controller Problem - Possible Workaround?? On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:59:15PM +0100, Gallagher, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently wrote to this list with a mail under the subject "Big > Installation Problems". > > Basically, so far as I understand, FreeBSD 4.0 won't install on my machine > because of driver problems with the RZ100 ATA controller. > > Apparently this controller was fairly common on early Pentium machines. > > And so what's the next step for anyone in possession of an RZ100? > > In order to help me figure out my options, here are some questions... > > 1) FreeBSD commitment to old hardware > > I guess its likely that development priorities are more focussed on newer > hardware problems, rather than problems associated with older kit. So am I > realistically going to see a fix for this anytime soon? > > 2) 3.4 Installation Floppies with 4.0 CDROM > > I'm new to FreeBSD, so please forgive me if I'm asking an outstandingly > stupid question: In the absence of a 4.0 RZ100 fix, can I use installation > floppies from a previous release to kick-start the installation from my 4.0 > CDROM? Or is the 4.0 CDROM going to overwrite the kernel drivers from the > floppy anyhow? > > 3) Back to 3.4 > > Is my only realistic course of action to install 3.4 (is it 3.4?) and forget > 4.0 (for now)? > > Advice and opinions gratefully received. I have this problem too. See my thread, "Problem Booting 4.0R Floppy (ATA Driver?)." And note the date. The day after 4.0-RELEASE was announced. :( 3.4 was and is running again just fine on this machine (but it was a pain to reinstall it). I built my own kernels with some different ata options, but never got it to boot. Hell, I took off all IDE devices and compiled the kernel without ATA support and it still died. Has anyone put in a PR on this? Now that it seems pretty definate that it is the IDE controller, I will submit one if there isn't one already. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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