From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 13 14:53:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.inwind.it (relay4.inwind.it [212.141.53.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D00937B423 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 14:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.160.56) by relay4.inwind.it (5.5.029) id 3AF9945F0013DE28; Sun, 13 May 2001 23:53:11 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:55:28 GMT Message-ID: <20010513.21552800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Read command timeout To: Mark Hughes Cc: References: <04cc01c0dbe9$29723f70$0200a8c0@mark2> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 5/13/01, 10:13:22 PM, "Mark Hughes" wrote regard= ing Read command timeout: > Hello all, > After trial and error, I have managed to get freebsd to install (see "Panic on Install - > page fault syncing discs"), however on the first boot at the end of th= e boot sequence I > get: > ad0: read command timeout > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: WRITE command timeout > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: read command timeout > ata0: resetting devices .. done > looping for ages, eventually ending in a > /: bad dir ino 12611 > and a panic which I didn't catch before it reset the system. Now it wo= n't boot at all, the > whole file system has been screwed it seems. > I'm attempting to install 4.1-Release. My system is detailed below. > System spec: > Biostar M7MIA motherboard, using AMD761 north bridge and VIA 686B sout= h > bridge ^^^^^^^^^^^^^= ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^= ^ IIRC, another person has met with difficulties with the VIA south bridge= recently (and NO installation) -- it was an ASUS AM7266 mobo, "featuring= " the same south bridge. Actually, the problems seem to be connected with IDE disks; AFAIR, SCSI disks work correctly. AFAIK, there are no solutions (yet), but I would be happy if I were wron= g (erm, I've got IDE HDs & I'd very much like to get the ASUS mobo) :-)) > 128MB Crucial 2.5CAS DDR PC2100 memory > AMD Duron 750MHz CPU > IBM Deskstar 6.5GB ATA33 Hard Disk Drive (partitioned as 4.5GB FAT32 > Win2K, rest FreeBSD)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message