Installation trouble with HP Proliant ML110 G5

[matthew]

Josep Pujadas i Jubany wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to install 7.0 in a new HP Proliant ML110 G5.
>
> This box has only 6 SATA connections (CD & HD are SATA), not IDE interfaces.
>
> FreeBSD 7.0 CD1 (i386) starts but stops with an error:
>
> ad0: 238475MB <Seagate ST3250620NS 3BJP> at ata0-master SATA150
> acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H60L/E904) at ata2-master SATA150
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left)
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left)
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out 
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left)
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left)
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (1 retry left)
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retraying (0 retries left)
> acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG timed out
>
> I tested other situations:
>  
> * Acer machine with CD SATA --------> Same problem.
> * Other HP machine with IDE CD -----> No problem.
> * HP Proliant ML110 G5 with
>   FreeBSD 6.2 CD1 (i386) -----------> No problem.
> * HP Proliant ML110 G5 with
>   FreeBSD 6.3 CD1 (i386) -----------> No problem.
>  
> I made a Google search and there are people with similar problem:
>  
> http://www.google.com/search?q=acd0+TIMEOUT+READ_BIG+freebsd+7.0
>  
> I tried to change my BIOS settings and/or use no-ACPI boot. Same problem.
>
> I went outside for more than one hour and when I returned sysinstall was 
> launched. So, retraying the CD unit for a longtime worked (?).
>
> I made my installation but I found two more problems:
>
> * On-board NIC was not detected:
>
> # dmesg | grep pci14
> pci14: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4
> pci14: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>
> * shutdown -r now did'nt restart the system. The system was blocked at:
>
> All buffers synced. 
> Uptime: 56m6s
>
> Same problem with NIC detection and machine reboot if I install 6.2 or 6.3 
> in this machine (ML110 G5). I have many ML110 G4 working with 6.2 without 
> problems.  
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
>
> Josep Pujadas
>
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I had the exactly same problem with On-Board NICs and restarting on HP
DL160 G5.
I haven`t testet the SATA CD-rom. I used iLO media connector, that works
with USB ana PATA CDROM