From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 01:35:42 2003 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 1F12337B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 01:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F3C43F3F for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 01:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h4T8b4tC078994 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 01:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 01:35:37 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: Boot problem: "ata0: resetting devices" 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: Thu, 29 May 2003 08:35:42 -0000 Here's a bit more information on the configuration: OS: FreeBSD 4.5 Disk: Seagate Barracuda ATA II (ST320420A; 20 GB) Chips: 478 pin Celeron; 2.1 GHz 512 MB DDR DIMM (2 ea.) SiS645DX Northbridge _or_ SiS962(L) Southbridge The manual indicates that the motherboard could have either a Northbridge or Southbridge chipset, but I don't know an easy way to tell which one this board has. Suggestions? Anyway, assuming that it's the latter, here's a note that seems relevant, if not real encouraging: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/160/2002/11/0/10219234/ "the controller is technically unsupported" The note does NOT say whether I can simply plug in a PCI-based controller card (which seems like the obvious workaround). Is this likely to work? -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection