From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 11:36:00 2004 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 5B2C516A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 11:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161F943D39 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 11:36:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nullentropy@lineone.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (orbital.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.215.230]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1B625685D; Thu, 27 May 2004 19:35:40 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <40B634FD.9010106@lineone.net> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:35:41 +0100 From: Robert Downes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040526 X-Accept-Language: en, fr, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40B6135B.6070006_lineone.net@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <40B6135B.6070006_lineone.net@ns.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install hangs with Toshiba 2.5" drive 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, 27 May 2004 18:36:00 -0000 nullentropy@lineone.net wrote: > Running FreeBSD 5.0 installer, I see a few messages along the lines of > "configured IRQ 3 is not in bitmap of irqs" and then the following pair > of lines: > > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. > > And then the system seems to jam, the drive light still on, and no > further progress is made even after several minutes. Solved it, thanks to the wisdom of the Web. A Google search and some luck led me to the nugget that disabling DMA mode for the IDE drive (and possibly disconnecting troublesome CD drives - but I didn't need to do that) would stop the boot jamming. So I've successfully installed FreeBSD on one machine (with a CD drive) and run it on another (without). Thank you to JJB and Joe for replying to me personally. -- Bob