Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-20 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, Robert Downes a écrit : Bernard Dugas wrote: Thanks very much, Robert, it was the udma option : but this is quite inefficient if I can't use UDMA with FreeBSD ? FreeBSD will drop down to PIO mode, probably mode 4. According to Scott Mueller's book, PIO mode 4 offers up to 16.67 MB/sec,

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-20 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, Phil Schulz a écrit : I didn't see the beginning of the thread. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049482.html But I had a similar problem on my desktop machine using (I think) 4.9-Release. It started when I had to change the motherboard. The new one came w/

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-20 Thread Phil Schulz
my desktop machine using (I think) 4.9-Release. It started when I had to change the motherboard. The new one came w/ an SiS chipset that wasn't supported by FreeBSD. I solved the problem by adding a line to /sys/dev/ata/ata-dma.c. It worked for a few weeks w/o any problems until I switched to

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-20 Thread Bernard Dugas
Phil Schulz a écrit : http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=Punditlangs=01 - Chipset SIS 651/962 - Lan Broadcom BCM4401 Try to apply the attached patch to /sys/dev/ata/ata-dma.c Neither do I have a mainboard w/ the same chipset as yours nor do I have any PC running RELENG_4 atm. But I had to

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-20 Thread Phil Schulz
The problem is I'm not a system developper either, and I only had the iso images for installation, so I will have to find a way to apply the patch. You'll need the kernel sources installed. Then apply the patch and then re-compile the kernel. Basically you just need to add on line of code in

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-19 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, Robert Downes a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices I had that problem. I disabled UDMA (Ultra DMA) in the BIOS,

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-19 Thread Phil Schulz
Bernard Dugas wrote: Hi, Robert Downes a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices I had that problem. I disabled UDMA

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-19 Thread Robert Downes
Bernard Dugas wrote: Thanks very much, Robert, it was the udma option : but this is quite inefficient if I can't use UDMA with FreeBSD ? FreeBSD will drop down to PIO mode, probably mode 4. According to Scott Mueller's book, PIO mode 4 offers up to 16.67 MB/sec, whereas UDMA can offer up to 100

Re: Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Downes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've tried to install the last freebds4.10 on an ASUS PUNDIT, from the iso images downloaded from the freeBSD website. But it can't install. It stops on a : ata0 : resetting devices I had that problem. I disabled UDMA (Ultra DMA) in the BIOS, and the problem was