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From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To: questions@freebsd.org, "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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7/2/2002 4:09:03 AM, "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> 
wrote:

>Thanks to everybody that submitted suggestions. I have since 
convinced
>myself that there must be a problem with the IDE controller. Why oh, 
why
>did I buy a motherboard that had a return sticker on it? (Because I was
>in a hurry and that's all they had in stock. :-)
>
>I hope future search engine users will save themselves a day of
>debugging by locating this post. :-)))
>
>--Lucky
>
>[...]
>> > > I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest 
BIOS
>> > > version 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via 
>> > floppies onto a
>> > > brand new Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have
>> > installed
>> > > FreeBSD many times before going back to FreeBSD 2.x.

Lucky -

I have the same mobo.  IIRC there was some discussion in one of the 
mailing lists that the ata driver might have some problems with very large 
capacity hard drives such as your 120gb WD.  I don't recall whether it's 
been resolved in the latest versions of -STABLE (I assume you're trying 
to install 4.6-RELEASE).

Try Google Groups in the FreeBSD mailing lists to see what the latest is 
on this issue.  If it has been resolved in -STABLE, then an FTP install 
may work.

Jud



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