From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 08:40:47 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 F335037B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.crc.co.za (home.crc.co.za [196.36.165.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92ABB43FAF for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:40:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: (from root@localhost) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5KFeBnU097579; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:40:11 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: from dman ([192.168.1.8]) by home.crc.co.za (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5KFdU2G097549; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:40:07 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) From: "Doron Shmaryahu" To: "'Bill Moran'" , Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:39:28 +0200 Message-ID: <000801c33742$373e39e0$0801a8c0@dman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <3EF1C2A7.4060603@potentialtech.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) 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: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:40:47 -0000 Hi, Just disable udma in the bios that will sort that out !! -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bill Moran Sent: 19 June 2003 04:03 PM To: aringoy@broadpark.no Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD 4.8 aringoy@broadpark.no wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 4.8. After the Kernel = configuration > page, the system hangs with these messages: >=20 > ad0: [the-name-of-my-hd] at ata0 -master BIOSDMA > ad1: READ command timeout tag=3D0 serv=3D0 -resetting >=20 > ata0: resetting devices >=20 > And that's it. The machine just sits there like a dog that's been = shown a card=20 > trick. >=20 > I have succesfully installed FreeBSD by disconnecting the master and setting=20 > 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. --=20 Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"