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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2000-04-04 17:14:18 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2000-04-04 17:14:18 +0000
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Add information about the dangarous apollo MPV3 chipset. Several
people have suggested the workaround to me (use only PIO mode) and I've not seend a message saying ths was fixed. I'll removed the bold warning stars after the issue is corrected.
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@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@ directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly
done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON
ITEMS:'
+20000320:
+ * * * W A R N I N G * * *
+ The ata driver has some issues with the Apollo MVP3 chipset.
+ Drives work only in pio mode and must be set to pio mode early
+ int the boot process. Do not upgrade. If you must upgrade
+ in the face of this, add
+ /sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
+ to the start of /etc/rc.conf. Even if you do this, any and
+ all damage to your system is at your own risk. You have been
+ warned.
+ * * * W A R N I N G * * *
+
20000319:
The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the
options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old