amd64/101873: Freebsd amd64 hangs on booting sata drive?

[Angelo Turetta]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/101873; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Angelo Turetta <aturetta at commit.it>
To: David <habeeb at cfl.rr.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/101873: Freebsd amd64 hangs on booting sata drive?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:01:42 +0200

 David wrote:
 > I attempted to do a test install of FreeBSD 6.1 ISO on a new machine I was building, the specs were:
 > *AMD AM2 5000+ dual core
 > *Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
 > *1GBx4 Mushkin ddr2 800Mhz
 > *750GBx4 S-ATA Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive (Tested with and without motherboard NV RAID in 0+1 mode with the same results)
 > *ATI Radeon 1800 video card
 > *standard dvd-rom
 > 
 > When attempting to boot in verbose and non verbose mode the machine would hang (to the best of what I recall) on the hard drives.
 > 
 >> Audit-Trail:
 > 
 > From: Frank Reppin <frank at undermydesk.org>
 >  
 >  I've had the same experience with my brand new and shiny
 >  amd64 equipmnent...:
 >  
 >  Mainboard -> ASUS M2N-E (nforce 570 - *no* SLI)
 
 Both 7.0-CURRENT-200607 and 6.1-STABLE-200607 (july) snapshots failed.
 The 7.0-CURRENT-200608 passed the disk probes, and indeed finished the 
 install, but was subject to a massive interrupt storm.
 
 As of today (2006-sep-16) the problem is solved in both 7-CURRENT and 
 6-STABLE (soon to be 6.2-RELEASE), I verified personally with 2 
 home-built snapshot CDROMs.
 
 I think this PR can be closed (FIXED).
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101873
 
 Angelo Turetta