Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board

From: David Xu (davidxu_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 06/02/04

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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?
    >

    This sounds like a cable problem, are you using ATA33 cable ?
    Sometimes ago, I have installed 5.2.1 on EPIA-MII without any problem.
    I will try if I can install it on my EPIA-SP and CN400.

    David Xu

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