Re: problem installing 4.7/4.8, etc

From: Soeren Schmidt <sos_at_spider.deepcore.dk>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:56:56 +0200 (CEST)
It seems Hideyuki KURASHINA wrote:
> >From your attached dmesg,
> 
> > PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:02.0
> [...]
> > SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 15
> > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:02.5
> > SIS5513: chipset revision 0
> > SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > SiS5513
> >     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> >     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> 
> My first machine, that is about 8 years old model, has SiS 5513.
> It works here since I installed FreeBSD snapshot as of the end of 2003/05.

Uhm I dont think this is such an old chip actually, all SiS ATA parts
say they are a 5513 :/ but sadly it comes in many flavors...

> Recent FreeBSD 4.x would fail to boot because it does not have
> src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chip.c, I think.  Soren, My understanding is OK,
> isn't it?

Yes, the ATA drivers chipset support part has been radically changed
and updated in 5.1/current, the old 4.x ATA driver doesn't understand
the newer SiS parts (and the support for some of the old is wrong as well)...

-Søren
Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 05:57:03 UTC

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