From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 19:24:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 236EF16A42C; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:24:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk) Received: from dswu232.btconnect.com (dswu232.btconnect.com [193.113.154.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B4E143D55; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:24:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk) Received: from c2bthomr03.btconnect.com (actually host 211.73.73.194.in-addr.arpa) by dswu232.btconnect.com with SMTP (XT-PP) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:24:36 +0100 Received: from AJDELL9200 (213-78-6-149.uk.onetel.net.uk [213.78.6.149]) by c2bthomr03.btconnect.com (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BRV41052; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:23:57 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200506141923.BRV41052@c2bthomr03.btconnect.com> From: "Alan Jay" To: , Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:24:33 +0100 Organization: Cyclops Vision Limited MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcVwD46mTfKjfektTUW7fcV9PFJNdAAMBlmwAB6+FNAAAERlkAAWuxZw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Cc: Subject: ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (problems booting - SATA hard disk not recognised) - X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: alan@cyclopsvision.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:24:45 -0000 Hi, I just got a new Tyan S5350 using twin Xeon processors I am told this is now a very standard motherboard. Unfortunately when I try to boot FreeBSD 5.4 Release I get the following errors on the IDE/ATA/SATA connection. The errors I get during boot up are as follows: The hard disk is not recognised you get the error: Ata0_master: Failure ATAPI_IDENTITY timeout (x3) Then Ata1_master: Failure ATA_Identify timeout (x3) This is true if I use a standard IDE drive (160Gb) or a SATA drive (250Gb). The BIOS recognises the drives and is happy with them but the OS has this problem. The board appears to use the Intel 6300SEB chip set using for the IDE/ATA/SATA is it supported? Or is there a problem with my motherboard? The board we have is: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigeri7320r_spec.html If anyone is using this motherboard successfully please let me know so I can organise a replacement. Any other help gratefully received. Alan Jay PS The rest of the machine specs are - twin Xeon processor; 4 Gb RAM; Intel Gigabit Network card in the PCI slot. 250Gb SATA drive. PPS Having looked around the lists there appear to be people who say this is related to the issues described 5.2.1 release errata (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/errata.html) PPPS loading in safe mode does work but it isn't a viable way to run a server anyone got any ideas why this occurs and how to work around it the ideas in the errata for 5.2.1 don't seem to work assuming that I have the syntax correct in the /boot/loader.comf