From: "Thomas Hurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I tried updating the BIOS on my K8WE (S2895) yesterday to 1.03, but
after the update, FreeBSD (RELENG_6 dated March 26) would randomly
freeze after booting.
As I was updating from v1.01, I suspect it may be the updates to
the nVidia SATA firmware that caused the issue, as things generally
froze shortly after the background fsck processed kicked in (with,
obviously, the exception of the first boot, and a few others). It may
be worth noting that Windows, though booting fine, did complain that
the ATA driver was mis-matched for the firmware of the ATA controller.
Is anyone else successfully running -STABLE with v1.03 on a K8WE? Just
wondering if this is something specific to the options I've chosen, or if
it's an interaction issue between FreeBSD and this BIOS revision.
(No, I haven't tried just going to 1.02, as I needed the machine. Though
that should be a fairly good test to narrow down what the problem is.)
I've not tried 1.03; I just tried flashing, but apparantly the only
floppy I have to hand has died. However, I've been running 1.02 for
months without problems. The only SATA issues I've encountered are
non-functional hot-plug and the usual 4GB+/multiple drives lockup, which I
"solved" by using a LSI MegaRAID for 6 of the 8 drives.
This is using the same SATA firmware as 1.03 according to the changelog
on http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_s2895.html so I doubt it's that.
I have one of those here, too. I have the 205H BIOS running. At the moment
the system is tied up being XP because that's where I earn my income. <sigh>
One thing I did discover is that the latest AMD AGP software that is
officially posted as of the beginning of the year is bad. I managed to get
a copy of an experimental AGP GART driver that works like a champ. There
might be a similar issue with the code for BSD to watch for. (It took
over a month to track that down. I could only run a single CPU with
cards in carefully selected slots with the release GART BIOS. With this
beta one I got I can go full bore and everything is basically cool.)
{^_^} Joanne
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