From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 18:27:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 F23EE16A420 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:27:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD1943D46 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:27:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so450207nzo for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TDrK6Dcw/exiXp5UVD4IxaVYruZ1U8wIUkq7XxMvijw0FTUOBYibcWdFJei00tuskuyc1i/bk3OPrm48wponsi0+5m6MoQOkP7dMa6U3he6cBKmvMfdJaLvw1qpngX1CCqQJQ6W4QxxaLh4GJrjYbYV1pVTJ0F3sljgo/9Thfxs= Received: by 10.36.178.18 with SMTP id a18mr721177nzf; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.20.33 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:27:16 +0300 From: "Andrew P." To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Carlos_Mendes_Luis?= In-Reply-To: <43738789.4020805@jonny.eng.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43732EA0.5030000@jonny.eng.br> <43738789.4020805@jonny.eng.br> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:27:18 -0000 On 11/10/05, Jo=E3o Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > > > > Please, do some research (googling) before asking > > such questions, as they usually require much more > > info. > > I did, indeed, and found absolutely nothing. Do you have some info = I > don't? Please tell me. I just was annoyed that you didn't get the make of your IDE controller right. > > > > Your motherboard has VIA P4M266A chipset, carrying > > VT8233A on board. Ata(4) driver is not completely newhat, > > in 6.0, and it has supported this very IDE controller for > > some time already. Please consult your motherboard's > > I may be teorettically supported, but it is not working, and it is t= he only > operating system with problems. The errors in 5.4 led me to believe the > problems were related to some kind of timing, but could get no further fr= om this. > > I did even search google to see if any other soul related any usage = of > FreeBSD with this MoBo, just to find nothing. Or worse, to find other pe= ople > with the same problems: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-February/010211.h= tml > http://listas.es.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd/2005-September/026449.html > > I have even found one that say changing APIC would solve the problem= , but > this did not solve mine: > > I already did all this, and even disabled ACPI, which you did not > mentioned, but is almost always the big villain. May we get back to -sta= ble > now? Or did I miss something I should have done before getting out of > -questions? Maybe -hackers, and not -stable, since this is now like hack= ing to me. > > Or maybe the Hardware compatibility list shoud be changed to note thi= s MoBo > is incompatible with FreeBSD. > stable@ and current@ are for discussions specific to stable and current branches, which this issue is not. Try disconnecting the HDD, placing the CDROM on primary master and trying to boot, please.