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From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable
	(ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)
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The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, markhannon@optusnet.com.au, 
	Yuri Shemanin <yuri@neva.ru>, Davide Giacca <dave@davethewave.it>, 
	Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 12:49:01 +0800

 Hiya!
 
 >>
 >> I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and
 >> 6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006).
 
 >> booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but
 >> doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet.
 
 >> Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then hang)
 
 
 I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and
 certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the HD
 to LBA instead of Auto or CHS.
 
 Try this and report back ;-)
 
 
 
 cheers
 mars