installing FreeBSD 4.8

[Doron Shmaryahu]

Hi,

Just disable udma in the bios that will sort that out !!




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bill Moran
Sent: 19 June 2003 04:03 PM
To: aringoy at broadpark.no
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD 4.8

aringoy at broadpark.no wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 4.8. After the Kernel configuration

> page, the system hangs with these messages:
> 
> ad0: [the-name-of-my-hd] at ata0 -master BIOSDMA
> ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -resetting
> 
> ata0: resetting devices
> 
> And that's it. The machine just sits there like a dog that's been shown a
card 
> trick.
> 
> I have succesfully installed FreeBSD by disconnecting the master and
setting 
> the slave as master, but I would like to use them both.

Please provide hardware details.  It's likely that those two drives won't
work
on the same controller.  I've heard rumors of older drives not playing nice
with newer drives on the same controller.  Are you sure the first drive
works
at all?

> Any Bios settings that would help?

Don't know of any.  But you might want to scan the ATA/IDE section of your
BIOS
to see if there's anything that might be useful.  Perhaps if you can force
it
to a slower speed (ATA33 for example) it would work ... but I'm just
guessing.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com

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