Problem with FreeBSD (4.9-REL to 5.2.1-REL) on NForce 2

[Rob MacGregor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Elischer [mailto:julian at elischer.org] 
> 
> We had one here and 4.2 oinstalled ok..
> to get anything newer we had to disable DMA on the ata drives.
> (types something in the boot line but I forget what..) (Don't have hte
> machine any more)
> (and afterwards we added it to /boot/loader.conf)

Well, nice to know that it *can* work.  Even in safe mode, with DMA disabled
and the drive running in PIO mode it still locks up on probing devices.  I
may just dig out a 4.2 ISO and give it a whirl.

The "bright" side is that I discovered forcedeth, a clean write of a network
driver for the NForce chipsets.  It's only for Linux, but that at least
means that it's possible for FreeBSD :)

-- 
 Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!