Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 23:04:09 +0100 From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> To: "Salvo Bartolotta" <bartequi@inwind.it> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Read command timeout Message-ID: <06c901c0dbf8$ad6c6b70$0200a8c0@mark2> References: <04cc01c0dbe9$29723f70$0200a8c0@mark2> <20010513.21552800@bartequi.ottodomain.org>
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> > System spec: > > Biostar M7MIA motherboard, using AMD761 north bridge and VIA 686B south > > 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 wrong > (erm, I've got IDE HDs & I'd very much like to get the ASUS mobo) :-)) Indeed. As this seems to be the case (I kinda guessed the 686B was the problem), if I bought a PCI IDE controller and plugged the hard drive into that, could I install freeBSD on a hard drive connected to that? Or would it have to be a hard drive connected to one of the on-board IDE controllers? Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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