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From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
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Subject: Re: ATAPI identify retries exceeded
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Hi!

> I insert the 5.0 cd in the drive and have the machine set to boot from
> the cd first... but as the process starts and everything is loading the
> machine HALTS with the error:
> 
> ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded
> ad0: READ command timeout  TAG=0  SERV =0 -resetting
> ata0: resetting devices..
> 
> EVERYTHING HALTS at this point and won't move forward.

Instead of 5.0-RELEASE I'd recommend you to try 4.8-RELEASE or 5.1-RELEASE
(in that order of preference).

For more information: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html
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Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* Be sure to use DEVICE=EXXON to screw up your environment.