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Date:      Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:36:46 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Rick Morris <rmorris@mos.us>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SiS 962/963 support?
Message-ID:  <416240FE.3090506@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <41620B5E.5070409@mos.us>
References:  <41620B5E.5070409@mos.us>

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Rick Morris wrote:
> None of the betas for 5.3 will boot on my systems with the SiS 962 IDE
> controllers. I notice that they are not listed in the Handbook under=20
> supported
> hardware. Can anyone tell me whether there are plans to support this
> chipset, and if so, what the status is? I've found various posts in=20
> -bugs and other lists mentioning this chipset in the past, but there=20
> seems to be no discussion of this for 5.x. All of our deployed units=20
> with 5.2.1 boot fine with this chipset, but 5.3 freezes on the ado: and=
=20
> acdo: messages in boot. Even CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work, requiring a=20
> manual shutdown.
>=20
> If anyone has worked on this problem, my company would be very=20
> interested in talking with you.

The SiS southbridges should be supported, at least the two systems I=20
have here in the lab works just dandy.
Could you mail me the output of a verbose boot from 5.2.1 and as far as=20
it gets on 5.3beta7 please ?

Have you tried disabling ACPI and/or APIC ? Both the SiS systems here=20
have had very diffrent success with both of those during times...

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-S=F8ren




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