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

Any 4.10 installation on asus pundit ?

2004-06-15 Thread Bernard Dugas
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 And I couldn't manage to have the Broadcom BCM4401 bfe0 recognised even if the 4.10 release notes tell bfe is

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