From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 12:44:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC41816A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:44:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.globo.com (smtp4.globo.com [200.208.9.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C0043D45 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listas.julianherrera@globo.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4.globo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A21619DDBC1 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:44:46 -0200 (BRST) Received: from smtp4.globo.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (riosf99 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02667-35 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:44:45 -0200 (BRST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (201009224150.user.veloxzone.com.br [201.9.224.150]) by smtp4.globo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E6B19DDBD5 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:44:44 -0200 (BRST) Message-ID: <41AC6B38.5000106@globo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:44:40 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Juli=E1n_Herrera?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: pt-br, pt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ATA IDENTIFY X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:44:49 -0000 Hello 4 all, I was starting to install FreeBSD 5.3 into 42 computers where I work as workstations when just at first installation i've got this uncommon problem. When kernel is finishing to load some messages like this appears: ata0-master : FAILURE ATA-IDENTIFY timed out After that, the installation program doesn't find any drive or partition to install. So, it's impossible to continue. When I tried to install again booting with Safe option, the installation program detects the drive but complain about its geometry, so I was in doubt to continue. This makes me think twice too soon (my first of 42 installations) if it's a good idea to migrate from Windows to FreeBSD here at my company, where FreeBSD has already been servicing the network infrastructure. The computer in question has a Soyo P4VGA-2AP1 motherboard with chipset VIA Apollo P4M266A and HD Samsung SP0411N. Thanks in advance, Julián Herrera