It seems John Hay wrote:
I tried to install 4.0-RELEASE on a completely new PC system, but the
install failed with ATA write errors and resets. I moved the disk to another
PC and installed 4.0 via manual disklabels, newfs, bin + src extraction.
4.0 booted fine on this system (a Dell
I tried to install 4.0-RELEASE on a completely new PC system, but the
install failed with ATA write errors and resets. I moved the disk to another
PC and installed 4.0 via manual disklabels, newfs, bin + src extraction.
4.0 booted fine on this system (a Dell Optiplex GX1).
It seems John Hay wrote:
Yup VIA has a new version of the 82C596 chip, in their usual visdom they
change the interface, but not the chip ID (I'll nominate VIA for the
way they do versioning). However I have worked out the solution with
Chris Wiener [EMAIL PROTECTED], that had this
On 4/04, John Hay wrote:
| I have a machine that can be trashed. The trouble is that it cannot
| install 4.x or -current because of the problem with the ata driver.
| During installation it just go in a loop during newfs and keep on
| spitting out errors.
You are lucky, you go further than I
Yup VIA has a new version of the 82C596 chip, in their usual visdom they
change the interface, but not the chip ID (I'll nominate VIA for the
way they do versioning). However I have worked out the solution with
Chris Wiener [EMAIL PROTECTED], that had this problem also and
