Tech Help?

[David Lodeiro]

Use FreeBSD 5.1 Release, you shouldnt have his issue. It relates to the ata 
controller not being supported by 4.7. Apparently there is another way around 
this, but I dont know what it is. Using 

Give it a try

David
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 06:47 am, OZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, and am trying to set it up to
> dual boot from a Primary Slave hard drive on an HP
> Pavilion 716n.  Having nothing but troubles.
>
> I've done the Google searches, and I've spent as much
> time as I can afford scouring the help sites, but
> can't find any answers.  If this is not the right
> forum for this question, please let me know where I
> can find some help.
>
> My Primary Master is Windows XP (on a Seagate, 80GB),
> I'm trying to set up the Primary Slave as FreeBSD 4.7
> Release (on a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8, 30GB).
>
> When I go through the boot sequence for FreeBSD, it
> gets stuck at:
>
>  ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
>  ad0: resetting devices ..
>
> Just hangs there indefinitely.
>
> I found one solution through a Google search that
> suggested disabling the DMA in the BIOS.  However, on
> the HP Pavilion, I can't do that -- it won't allow me
> to disable the DMA in the BIOS.
>
> What can I do?  This is a fairly urgent issue, and I'm
> out of ideas.  Please help.  Thanks in advance!
>
> OZ
>
>
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