From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 8:29:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [208.146.132.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9865237B40D for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:29:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: (from mailist@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA07430 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:30:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:30:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Incoming Mail List Message-Id: <200106141530.LAA07430@whoweb.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ASUS A7V-E Heads Up Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a new (june,2001) A7V-E motherboard with VIA 686B UDMA 100 controllers that I could not get installed with an IDE Cdrom. I tried both a Sony CRX145 and TEAC CD532E but got MODE_SENSE_BIG or READ_BIG errors with them that prevented the installation from occuring. I read in the archives about someone else who saw a similar problem and resolved it by putting the cdrom on the secondary controller. That did not work in my case. I resorted to installing the hard drives on an older computer and then putting them back into my machine with the A7V-E motherboard. This worked fine and the installed operating system seems to be doing just swell. If you're looking for hardware, just beware of this issue with the ASUS A7V-E motherboard. The release notes for v4.3 do not claim to support the 686B south bridge controller and its obvious now that the problem is related to the CDROM and motherboard combination. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message