Re: 5.2.1 on EPIA M1000 board

From: Robert Downes (nullentropy_at_lineone.net)
Date: 06/02/04

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    Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:25:13 +0100
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    David Xu wrote:

    > 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.

    As you mention a cable, and seeing as I had a third cable ready to try
    (using the short 2.5" to 3.5" adapter), I switched cables to the HDD and
    booted FreeBSD 5.1. And, to my genuine surprise, I'm now running in
    UDMA100 rather than PIO. The only problem now is how noise UDMA100 is
    compared to the sedate PIO. A gentle, slow crunchy noise has become an
    eager, fast tearing noise.

    Seeing as this is an improvement on things in 5.1 so far, I'm going to
    risk everything (well, this bare installation with no user files) and
    buildworld and kernel for 5.2.1 and see if I get wild chaos, or if this
    new cable appeases the dark lords of data throughput.

    (I'm quite pissed about the original cable... I paid money for that, and
    it doesn't work. Now I'm using the freebie adapter and IDE cable that
    came with the motherboard anyway.) 

    -- 
Bob
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