From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 13:56:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1CE16A4EB for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:56:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598B443D4C for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:56:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F28760F0; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:56:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19822-09; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:56:32 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9E660DA; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:56:32 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <421B3A5C.6050208@makeworld.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:57:48 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Palmer References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Install Freebsd 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:56:36 -0000 John Palmer wrote: > I have a SuperMicro Motherboard X6DHE-G2 with serial ata. I am trying to > install FreeBSD 5.3. > When I boot it up from the cdrom and select "Boot FreeBSD [default]." I > get > an error of "ata2-master: FAILURE =ATA_IDENTIFY TIMED OUT." The hard drive > is not being detected. > > If I boot it up in "FreeBSD safe mode," I dont get any errors and the hard > drive is being detected. > I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 in safe mode and installed the current updates > without any problems. > > The only problem I have is after rebooting the machine and booting it up in > default mode. It is not able to mount my root partition. Also, I keep > getting the error of "ata2-master: FAILURE=ATA_IDENTIFY TIMED OUT." Has > anybody run across this problem? If so, I would like to know how the > problem was fixed. > > Thanks > > JP This is a question that ought to be asked in FreeBSD-Questions. Current is 6.0 and beyond. -- Best regards, Chris Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.