With 4.3-RELEASE, possibly. With 4.3-STABLE and 4.4-and-future
releases, no - the 'wd' driver was discontinued.
G'luck,
Peter
--
I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit.
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:50:31AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> You could always try reverting to the old "wd" IDE driver for your
> Netfinity cdrom once you get the server installed.
>
> Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com
> Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
> Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alejandro A.
> >Ramirez
> >Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:19 AM
> >To: Jonathan M. Slivko; Dimuthu Bandara
> >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Soren Schmidt;
> >freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 Problem (ATA Driver Bug)
> >
> >
> > There is actually a bug in the ATA driver since 4.X branch came out, I
> >have been having this problem with 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, it always hangs
> >in there, and sometimes gives me a fatal trap, I have wrote
> >several times to
> >the author of the driver, sendeing him a boot -v, fatal traps, and all of
> >those things, he replied once to try a patch, but it didnt worked
> >and I have
> >never heard of him again (Im copying him in this mail). You cant use the
> >cdrom in the Netfinitys 5000's, you will have to install the system with
> >floppy disks.
> >
> >Greetings...
> >Ales
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jslivko.org>
> >To: "Dimuthu Bandara" <dimuthu@hotmail.com>
> >Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> >Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 6:00 PM
> >Subject: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 Problem
> >
> >
> >> Did you burn the ISO from ftp.freebsd.org? You could have gotten a bad
> >> burn, thats what it looks like. -- Jonathan
> >>
> >> \|||/
> >> (o o)
> >> /-----------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------------\
> >> | Jonathan M. Slivko E-Mail: jslivko@jslivko.org |
> >> | IRC Nick: optix` Backup: js43064n@pace.edu |
> >> | AIM/AOL: JMSNY2001 Web : http://www.jslivko.org |
> >> |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
> >> | "History teaches us that days like this are best spent in bed" |
> >> \--------------------------------------------------------------------/
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Dimuthu Bandara wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 Release on IBM Netfinity 5000
> >server. It
> >> > all went fine until the files system creation process
> >completes. Then it
> >> > gives me following error. I think it's something to do with
> >CD-ROM but I
> >> > tried with a another brand new CD-ROM drive but the result is
> >the same..
> >> > Please help me on this matter..
> >> >
> >> > Here is my error messages ..
> >> >
> >> > Blue screeen continues until "All Filessytems information written
> >> > successfully" and hangs.
> >> > screen 2 (alt f2) shows more information:
> >> >
> >> > Debug Generating /etc/fstab file
> >> > acd0:READ_TOC command timeout .. resetting
> >> > ata0:Resetting devices .. done
> >> > acd0:read data overrun 12/0
> >> > acd0: READ_BIG command timeout .. resetting
> >> > ata0: reesetting devices .. done
> >> >
> >> > The last two messages repeat about 5 times and hangs.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Could you please help me on this problem...
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot..
> >> >
> >> > Dim
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