From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 20:26:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE9716A41C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jim-c@charter.net) Received: from mxsf27.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf27.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06EF43D55 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:26:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jim-c@charter.net) Received: from mxip09a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip09a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.139]) by mxsf27.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5NKQULG002647 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:26:30 -0400 Received: from 68-119-202-215.dhcp.spbg.sc.charter.com (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (68.119.202.215) by mxip09a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 23 Jun 2005 16:26:30 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,224,1115006400"; d="scan'208"; a="1026261619:sNHT118039432" Message-ID: <42BB1AF3.9050307@charter.net> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:26:27 -0400 From: Jim Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis References: <42BB02AF.3080702@jonny.eng.br> In-Reply-To: <42BB02AF.3080702@jonny.eng.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA problems with FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:26:33 -0000 Jonny, When I started using FreeBSD a month or so ago I experienced the same problem. The only workable solution for me was to use 4.11. I corresponded with Søren Schmidt about this, but he could find no reason for this occurrence. If anyone can suggest a test for me to run to gather data for this I would be more than happy to do so. Jim Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > Hi, > > I have already installed FreeBSD 5.4 in lots of hardware, but now > I came to one that is troublig me. > > It an ASUS motherboard, model P4VP-MX, with VIA8235 Chipset. > Neither the FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE CD, nor a preinstalled hard disk can > identify the ATA disks in this computer. During the hard disk probe > the kernel sends some messages, "ata0-master: failure - ATA_IDENTIFY > timed out", "ata0-master: failure - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out", and them > no hard disk is identified, so I cannot install the system. If I boot > from a pre-installed hard disk, its even worse, after these message, I > get a "kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled", but I must confess > that this hard disk does not have a GENERIC kernel anymore. > > The CPU is a P4 2.0GHz, with 512M DDR, if this matters. I cannot > provide a memory dump, because there is no device to dump at. > > Also, note that Fedora 3 and Windows XP Home run on this hardware > without any trouble. > > Thanks for any help, > > Jonny > > PS: Please CC: me in the answers as I do not currently subscribe to > -stable. Thanks. >