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Efren Bravo wrote:

>Hi
>
>  
>
>>I'm trying to put FreeBSD on an older machine, that currently has Linux
>>installed. It is a 1 GHz Athlon with a Via KT266 chipset. The disk
>>controller is a VIA 8233.
>>
>>The problem is that FreeBSD does not find the harddisk when booting
>>from
>>the install CD. The boot loader does, though. This happens both with
>>5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-beta1.
>>    
>>
>
>
> I'm new working on unix/freeBSD. I had the same problem and solved it
>upgrading the Motherboard's BIOS.  
>  
> I hope it can help you...
>  
>

I was hoping that this would also solve my ATA Identify Timeout problem, 
but alas, not so.
I updated the bios on my systemboard and still have the problem with any 
version of FreeBSD
later than 4.11.  I also have a VIA chipset.

Jim Campbell