From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 06:40:29 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 4979016A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BDB43D45 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 06:40:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 2163 invoked by uid 89); 21 May 2004 13:33:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.131) by 0 with SMTP; 21 May 2004 13:33:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 23803 invoked from network); 21 May 2004 13:40:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 21 May 2004 13:40:26 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077156147; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:40:03 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23059126; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:44:22 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 66187-07; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:44:21 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id AC54B11; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:44:21 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:44:21 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Richard Caley Message-Id: <20040521164421.219f2b2a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <200405211320.i4LDKgMV027013@pele.r.caley.org.uk> References: <20040521140927.10924c7a@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <200405211320.i4LDKgMV027013@pele.r.caley.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.{8,9,10} Install ad0 READ command error 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: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:40:29 -0000 On Fri, 21 May 2004 14:20:42 +0100 (BST) Richard Caley wrote: > > > The motherboard is an ASRock KS41 > > > Chipset: SIS 741 + SIS 963L > > > Athalon 2400+ > > > HDD model and firmware version would be useful. > > The HDD is a maxtor 6Y080P0 The BIOS is AMI and identifies itself as > K7S41 P1.10. FYI on a VIA 8237 this Maxtor woks ad0: ATA-7 disk at ata0-master But of course this means nothing ;-/ I've had problems with identical HDD but different firmware versions. Did you tried with another HDD ? Does the HDD work on another mobo ? > As a matter of interest, I have had a very similar problem on a > mini-PC which I had put down to a hardware fault, but maybe there is a > new(ish) motherboard chipset out there which 4.X can't cope with but > 5.X can? This could be possible due to acpi support in 5.x; but of course it can happen also the other way. Did you tried to boot with acpi disable ? -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"