Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!sdd.hp.com!hamblin.math.byu.edu!park.uvsc.edu!usenet
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: will hardware that won't do NT do BSD?
Date: 16 Dec 1995 07:48:35 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <4attkj$cqi@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <4ariie$has@kdcol.kdcol.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com
dave@mail.kdcol.com (Dave E Martin) wrote:
]
] If a PC won't run NT (it mysteriously locks up at random places and the
] manufacturer specifically says NT is not supported) will BSD run on it?
]
] I would like to know why it won't run NT and if it will cause a problem
] for freebsd. It is a 133 pentium system with phoenix bios 4.04.
It depends. (Hi Dave!).
Basically, you need to know why it is locking up under NT.
If you disable the cache, does it work? If so, you will probably
have to disable the cache under BSD and Linux as well, since it
is likely that the cache is not being invalidated after bus
mastering controllers have writtten memory regions that happen
to be in the cache at the time of the transfer.
Is it an IDE system? If it is, and you are using an RZ1000
controller, you won't have a problem under BSD. If you want to
make it work under NT, you will have to disable queueing on
the controller. This is generally a BIOS option.
If you posted more information about the system, like chipset,
controller, drive, and motherboard manufacturers, etc., you
might get a response from someone with the same or similar
equipment (and they could be more specific in their response).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.