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From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@core.310.ru>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Beta #3 - IDE Problems? (Intel / ICH6 based laptop)
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:50:21PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 05 September 2005 19:31 +0400 Stanislav Sedov <stas@core.310.ru> wrote:
> 
> >Try to disable ACPI - it can helps. There may be some problems with ACPI
> >on your laptop - BIOS update sometime helps. But first try to disable ACPI
> >during FreeBSD boot.
> 
> Latest BIOS on the machine already (apparently published sometime in 
> August, '05) - No difference at all with ACPI disabled, apart from one PNP 
> warning [which is understandable] and appeared to be something to do with 
> the onboard sound.
> 
> -Karl
> 
> ps. When I said 'slice' in my earlier post, I meant partition - the hard 
> drive has a WinXP partition, and a FreeBSD partition with the various 
> slices on it, which Sysinstall doesn't see at all at installation time (in 
> case anyone was rolling eyes <g>)...
> 
> 
How does your SATA controller operate? Try to use LEGACY mode.