I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ramiro Aceves [mailto:ea1abz at wanadoo.es]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:45 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Subject: Re: I can not install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz
> 
>   npx0: INT 16 interface
>   pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
>   pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>   pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10b9, dev=0x1449) at 2.0
> 
>   atapci0: <CMD 640 ATA controller !WARNING! buggy chip data loss 
> possible> at device 3.0 on pci0
> 
>   atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported
> 
>   atapci0: Busmastering DMA disabled
> 

Keep in mind that the way this bug works is when you have a hard disk
on the first IDE controller and a CDROM on the second (as you do here)
when they are both transferring data at the same time the CMD 640 chip
corrupts the data.  You can fix it by moving the CD to the same
cable as the hard drive.

> 
>   pci0: <Cirrus Logic GD5434 SVGA controller> at 4.0
>   pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5880) at 14.0 irq 9
>   rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 
> 0x4000000-0x40000ff irq 5 at device 15.0 on pci0
>   rl0: Ethernet address: 00:02:44:76:07:ca

The Realtek ethernet card here is another one to keep an eye on.
The cards work OK but have difficulty at times getting the correct
speed and duplex negotiation.  Keep that in mind if you ever find
the network acting strangly.

Ted