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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:57:33 -0400
From:      "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
To:        "'albi'" <albi@scii.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FW: Sata drives and FBSD
Message-ID:  <20051005165936.1FD1743D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <24803.194.109.233.143.1128531162.squirrel@mail.eyfa.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: albi [mailto:albi@scii.nl] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:53 PM
> To: Steve Bertrand
> Subject: Re: FW: Sata drives and FBSD
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> > This message failed to go through twice, so I'll try one more time:
> 
> i've since it 2x already, stop it :-)
> 
> > I have had an issue (as many others have) trying to get STABLE, or 
> > even CURRENT running on a box with an ICH6R RAID controller.
> >
> > After install (which appears to be successful), when I 
> reboot it just 
> > sits there with a blinking cursor in the top left of the screen.
> >
> > I've tried this numerous times over the past couple months 
> to no avail.
> >
> > Today, I tried another box using a 200GB Sata drive w/o 
> RAID, and the 
> > exact same thing happens.
> 
> perhaps a silly question,
> did you set it in the BIOS to boot from RAID-device rather than IDE ?

I've tried all different methods of boot procedure, disabling IDE
entirely, disabling RAID...all on both boxes.

Tks for the suggestion though!

Steve

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