From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 5 7:36:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eldep.mephi.ru (eldep.mephi.ru [194.67.66.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA94737B9FC for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 07:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from korolev@eldep.mephi.ru) Received: from localhost (korolev@localhost) by eldep.mephi.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10868; Fri, 5 May 2000 18:33:36 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 18:33:35 +0400 (MSD) From: Korolev_Andrey To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem in FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE installation In-Reply-To: <20000503155148.C56045@irrelevant.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I've solved my problem. I've just disabled UDMA in bios and installation was completed without any problems. Good Luck! Andrey. On Wed, 3 May 2000 simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:48:14PM +0400, Korolev_Andrey wrote: > > Hello! > > I want to install FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on my PC. > > But during the installation process (after all options are chosen and I > > press Commit) there appears the window with the text: > > Writing partition information to drive ad0,- > > and the installation process is not going futher. > > When I press Alt-F2, the lines: > > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting > > ata0: resetting devices..done > > -are periodicaly repeated. > > How could I solve this problem and install this version of FreeBSD on > > my computer (with 3.2-RELEASE there was no problem)? > > > > At the start of installation, BSD has found devices as: > > atapci0: port 0xe............ > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ad0: 8223MB [16708/16/63] at ata0 - master using UDMA33. > > Good question, if you find out the answer, let me know as I'm currently > sticking to 3.4-STABLE as that's the latest I can get to run on my PC, > I get exactly the same symptoms as you, with a VIA chipset too, will > have to check the chipset model number though. > > -- > Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message