From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 3:35:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web4101.mail.yahoo.com (web4101.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.104.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BDB937B43C for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20000925103522.5443.qmail@web4101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.9.188.86] by web4101.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:35:22 PDT Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:35:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Digital Gopal Subject: WRITE command timeout... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After having unsuccessfully trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 for many times, I finally gave up and I'm now here to post this problem here so that someone may help me. It did write the partition table and replace the MBR but when creating the new filesystem, I looked into the debug console (since it took a long time) but it reported the following messages: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices ... done This message loops many times.. and after a long time I quit using Control-C I have a VIA Apollo Pro chipset, Celeron 466 CPU, Seagate 4.3GB HDD, ATAPI compatible CDROM Drive, 8MB AGP. It didn't even write the partition information at my office computer which has a Intel 810 chipset, PIII 450, Seagate 10GB HDD, ATAPI compatible CD-WR Drive. I saw a similar kind of problem in this URL: http://x69.deja.com/=km/getdoc.xp? AN=659557459&CONTEXT=969632590.874512407&hitnum=49 So, anybody could help me out. Or, Anybody can tell me where I can get an installation floppy image for FreeBSD that will have a kernel with UDMA features disabled? Note that the BIOS setup settings are circumvented by FreeBSD; disabling UDMA in BIOS has no result. -- Gopal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message