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From: Eriq Lamar <eqe@cox.net>
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Subject: problems booting 4.10
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The programer of yace chess engine wrote the following message:

Accidently today I wanted to install Freebsd (4.9). Unfortunately it hangs
>>during the boot process. Last message displayed was:
>>
>>ata0: resetting devices ..
>>
>>I couldn't be bothered to investigate the problem. Should I try Freebsd 
5.2.1?
>
>NO try the new beta 4.10-BETA it is more stable I think. I have just switched 
to
>it and ran the match on it, so I know it works I haven't had a single problem 
w/
>it yet. I'm still doing some smp test w/ BETA but all in all better than that
>5.2.1-RELEASE that imho has some issues to work out. If you have any problems 
w/
>install just ask. My email is eqe@cox.net.

Same problem with 4.10, hanging at the boot with the above message. I disabled
DMA mode for the HDs, and it booted. But then I got an error when partitioning
the drive ("too big?"). Can Freebsd handle IDE drives > 128 GB? Thanks for 
your
offer of help, but I think I will use the space otherwise. Not very tempting
anymore, when it starts like this. I will see however, what I can do, to make
Yace run under Freebsd.

Regards,
Dieter

I am hoping that someone here could be of more assistance than I to help him 
get freebsd running.