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From: "Thomas Weber" <thomas@youngarts.org>
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Subject: Re: READ command timeout - a common problem i think
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Hi,

i once had this error too and searched even hell about a solution. In some
archive i found the reason: Some CD-ROM-drives don't understand a strange
ATA-signal wich is used by FreeBSD for communication. Once ago there had
been a patch, but as i remember, it was in the times of FreeBSD 3.*.
As i know, there is _NO_ solution but installing another CD-ROM-drive or
removing the drive.
If you don't have another drive, you could install via bootdisk and FTP.

Thomas 'Neo' Weber
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thomas@youngarts.org
neo@gothic-chat.de

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian" <mr_man@mweb.co.za>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:59 PM
Subject: ad0: READ command timeout - a common problem i think


> Hi
>
> When I try and boot FreeBSD 5.0 setup I get the following error:
>
> ad0: READ command timeout
> ata0: resetting devices
>
> Info on my hardware:
> Motherboard is a Gigabyte  GA-8SG667 with SIS 648 + SIS 963 AGPSet  and
> ATA133
> Hard drive: IBM Deskstar GXP  80 gb  - support ata100 - 7200 rpm
>
> Any help will be MUCH appreciated!
> Brian
>
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