Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:06:59 -0500 From: luis <lramos3@satx.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DELL SC 1420 Server, failed 5.4 installation Message-ID: <42E70863.2070803@satx.rr.com>
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I recently bought a Dell SC 1420 server, single Xeon 2.8GhZ CPU,
512MB memory, WD 40GB SATA drive, embedded dual channel SATA controller
and so far have failed to install FreeBSD. I have tried 5.4, 5.3, 4.4
and after recognizing the drive installation has always stopped at
"Waiting 15 secs for scsi drives to settle". I even tried Mandrake 10
and it stalls on hard disk driver installation. I then disconnected the
SATA drive, connected an IDE drive and the system still halted at the
same spot. I have tried to load the aac module but a message early in
the boot process states that it was not initialized. I have done a
search in google, WD's website, FreeBSD mailing lists and so far no
luck. What other information do I need to gather in order to solve this
problem? As a last resort I tried and installed succesfully Windows
98. Thank you very much for your help. Luis
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