Re: problem installing 4.7/4.8, etc

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey_at_radix.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:16:33 -0400
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:56:56PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote:
> 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...

my impression is that it's no newer than last fall, since the "same"
chipset appeared in another machine that I got (but it's an end-users'
so I didn't add that).
 
> > 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)...

Does FreeBSD still implement only one install per machine?  (Is it possible
to install both 4.x and 5.x on the same box)

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