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FreeBSD4.7 on v5 panics
FreeBSD4.7 on v5 panics

New MessageFreeBSD4.7 on v5 panics (modified 0 times) gramster
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Hi all

Has anyone managed to get FreeBSD to work with a v5? I've had a vanilla FBSD 4.7 run just fine on ealier IOs, but on a v5 it gets to the end of the kernel device probes, where it reads disk geomtery just prior to mounting the filesystems, and I get a succession of errors - first it switches from DMA66 to DMA33, complaining that the drive or cable doesn't support DMA66, then I get read timeouts, then a kernel panic.

I've tried two drives and two cables with the same results, and these same drives/cables will boot and run WinXP just fine, so I don't think its faulty hardware. The same drive/cable plugged into a v1 or v3b boots FBSD just fine too, so it seems some hardware change has been made on v5's. Anyone know any more about this?

02-17-2003 00:28:16

New MessageRE:FreeBSD4.7 on v5 panics (modified 0 times) mp3boombox
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An error about udma 66/33 is no suprise. Do you have an ATA-66 cable with 80 or 84 conductors??? (standerd or laptop sized drives). What would happen if you forced the hard drive to work in a lower IO mode? Then trying to load the system? If forced to use a lesser PIO interface could it possably fix the problem? I do not know freebsd so I'm making a gues?
02-17-2003 13:16:03

New MessageRE:FreeBSD4.7 on v5 panics (modified 0 times) gramster
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Why then does the same disk/cable work in a v1 and a v3b?

Let me phrase my original question differently - has anyone got FreeBSD to run on a v5 IO? Right now I have a v1 (about to be sold), v3b, and v5. I'd like to sell the v3b and get another v5, but I need at least one to run FreeBSD, which my current v5 doesn't want to do. So it would be good to know if that is just a problem with my specific unit and a different v5 will likely not have the problem, or all v5's have the problem, in which case I'm better off keeping the v3b.

02-17-2003 23:14:36

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