On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:40:42AM +0200, Andrea Rossignoli wrote:
> First of all thank you,
> I downloaded the sources from your link.
> I read that the chipset is a sis651 ( possible ? ).
> I created a CD-ROM from the cdrom.iso that I found from your link,
> I booted it and the device probing is okay :-) even with udma support
> enabled from BIOS.
> The only problem I found was that when I choose the installation media and I
> select the cd-rom it will show me that error again and the
> pc will reset.
> I can't report the error precisely because the pc resets after 1-2 seconds.
> The CDrom is on the same ide of the hdd, and the cd-rom is a bit "old" (
> 20x ).
> Re-reading your post I'm not sure I did follow your instructions exactly
> :-).

You're the second person reporting a problem like this, so I don't think
you did anything wrong.
I'll try to have a look at this, I'm leaving this evening to 10 days,
so I won't be able to look at this before 2 weeks.

> 
> Actually that's not an issue for me ( I mean the udma support ),
> because I'm using that pc without udma because I'm going to build a NetBSD
> distribution for the board Net4501,
> but that's another matter and I'll ask for that in another post.
> 
> If you want I could use my home machine if you want to do some tests for
> sis651.

OK, I'll get in touch with you when I have something to test :)

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