Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board
From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 06/01/04
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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:36:22 -0500 To: Robert Downes <nullentropy@lineone.net>
Robert Downes wrote:
> I have had an awful weekend trying to make sense of wild errors that
> FreeBSD has been throwing on my VIA EPIA M1000 board.
>
> 5.0 seemed to be going fine, until I tried to make buildworld using
> 5.2.1 sources. Then it crashed and reset halfway through. The second
> attempt worked, so I built and installed a 5.2.1 kernel. Then the fun
> began.
>
> 5.2.1 would not accept my hard disk. Attepmting to boot normally, or
> mounting drives after booting into single-user-mode, would cause a
> stream of errors.
>
> Thinking the crash had screwed my hard disk data structure, I did a
> fresh install of 5.2.1 from the release ISO from the FTP site. Booted
> fine on a Pentium 4 machine, but went beserk again on my EPIA board.
>
> The error I'm getting looks like this:
>
> ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=11 <DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
> LBA=4127103
>
> Such messages would stream up the screen, the drive crunching wildly.
> Any successful access (booting from a kernel.old 5.0 kernel, for
> instance) would complain about the filesystem being dirty, and leave
> the system read-only until fsck was run. fsck would run, but would
> find dozens of assorted errors which it could not correct.
>
> I posted this to freebsd-questions, and someone replied with something
> along the lines of 'me too' - they say that they can run 5.2.1 on a
> Compact Flash card, but will get wild problems too if they attempt to
> boot it from any hard disk.
>
> Also, should it be of any interest, I can only run 5.0 if I disable
> UDMA access to the Primary IDE Master in my BIOS settings. FreeBSD
> obligingly drops to PIO mode. Any ideas on this?
Do you have a 40-wire cable plugged into a drive that wants to use an
80-wire cable?
I assume you mean you have an M10000, right?
That same drive works fine in a different system?
Eric
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