From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 07:03:21 2003 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 0A4B537B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [64.8.50.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 525C743FAF for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.161.217]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030619140319.PMCP1347.mta9.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:03:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF1C2A7.4060603@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:03:19 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aringoy@broadpark.no References: <1056012526.3ef178ee8f5f5@mail.broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <1056012526.3ef178ee8f5f5@mail.broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD 4.8 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, 19 Jun 2003 14:03:21 -0000 aringoy@broadpark.no wrote: > Hi! > > I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 4.8. After the Kernel configuration > page, the system hangs with these messages: > > ad0: [the-name-of-my-hd] at ata0 -master BIOSDMA > ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -resetting > > ata0: resetting devices > > And that's it. The machine just sits there like a dog that's been shown a card > trick. > > I have succesfully installed FreeBSD by disconnecting the master and setting > the slave as master, but I would like to use them both. Please provide hardware details. It's likely that those two drives won't work on the same controller. I've heard rumors of older drives not playing nice with newer drives on the same controller. Are you sure the first drive works at all? > Any Bios settings that would help? Don't know of any. But you might want to scan the ATA/IDE section of your BIOS to see if there's anything that might be useful. Perhaps if you can force it to a slower speed (ATA33 for example) it would work ... but I'm just guessing. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com