ServerWorks/Broadcom HT1000 chipset errata saga

Travis Mikalson bofh at terranova.net
Sun Dec 23 09:40:42 PST 2007


J. Martin Petersen wrote:
> I have tested this with the scenarios that failed previously (with 6.2 
> as well as vanilla 7.0-BETA4) and it works! Good work, Søren, and thanks 
> Travis!
> 
>> It would be fantastic if 7.0-RELEASE worked right out of the box for 
>> people using HT1000-based motherboards.
> 
> I second that. Please include it into 7.0-RELEASE, as that would make it 
> usable on off-the-shelve HP ProLiant servers instead of "silently" 
> corrupting everything.

By the way, anybody with an afflicted HT1000 system who has been unable 
to install FreeBSD on it, contact me privately off-list and I can 
provide you a patched 7.0-BETA4 boot CD (disc1 from make release) so you 
can get it going.

-T
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