5.2.1 goes beserk on EPIA M board

[Chuck Swiger]

Robert Downes wrote:
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> ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=11 <DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> 
> LBA=4127103
> 
> I did have, yesterday, FreeBSD 5.0 running on my EPIA M successfully 
> until I tried to buildworld using 5.2.1 sources, at which point my EPIA 
> hard crashed and reset itself. I assumed my PSU had failed briefly, but 
> is it possible that 5.2.1 has special problems with the EPIA board or 
> processor?

Sure, it's possible.  5.2.1 is very close to tracking -CURRENT, and there can 
be some fallout after people make changes to APCI, the ATAng code, and 
whatnot.  However, I have to say that the EPIA hardware tends to be fairly 
sensitive to things like poor IDE cables, jumping everything according to 
spec, etc.

-- 
-Chuck