It seems John Summerfield wrote:
> > It seems Volker Stolz wrote:
> > > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is
> > > severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for
> > > Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board
> > > should be a couple of years old, it's for regular Pentium-I).
> > >
> > > Could anyone comment on this to get it working with FreeBSD?
> > > sysinstalls gets write-errors after a couple of kilobytes, and
> > > when running an already installed system, mount/fsck bomb with
> > > sig 11, after that you find yourself in single-user mode with
> > > every command (including 'reboot'!) yielding a SIGILL.
> >
> > Well, that chip is so broken by design, no software workaround can
> > help its misery, a hardware fix exists, but cant (easily) be
>
> As Volker notes; Linux can work round it. So can OS/2. I don't know the
> details, but there ARE modes where it works.
Nope, there are not, even the manufacturer agrees to that....
-S�ren
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