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From: Crucio <crucio2004-freebsd@yahoo.com>
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Booting safe mode actually works. Heck, I even got to
use sysinstall. =}

I shall try to replicate the stuff that gets set in
beastie.4th and slap it into my loader.conf. Hopefully
that should be enough to get me by.

Thanks!


--- Lapo Nustrini <lapo@seanet.com> wrote:

> Have you tried booting up in safe mode?
> I have a similar issue running 5.3 STABLE on a
> machine which runs fine 
> with 5.3 BETA7.
> 
> Booting into safe mode works fine.  Any other way,
> and it gets ATAPI 
> errors or SCSI errors (if I take all ATAPI stuff out
> of the kernel).
> 
> Still trying to find the real source of the
> problem...
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Lapo
> 
> 
> On Dec 7, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Crucio wrote:
> 
> > I am unable to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on my
> > Soekris net4801, which has a SanDisk Ultra II
> 512MB
> > Compact Flash card as a hard drive. The kernel
> probes
> > the drive just fine but when it comes time to
> write or
> > read from the drive, specifically in sysinstall, I
> > get;
> >
> > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> > LBA=0
> > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> > LBA=0
> > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> > LBA=0
> > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> > LBA=1
> > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out
> >
> > Then sysinstall says;
> >
> > "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!"
> >
> > To do this manually, with fdisk, disklabel and
> newfs
> > works up until the computer has rebooted and tries
> to
> > load the root filesystem. It hangs for a little
> while
> > then starts spitting out those READ_DMA errors and
> > finally refuses to mount ad0s1a as root.
> >
> > Disabling DMA in loader.conf doesn't seem to have
> any
> > effect.
> >
> > Any ideas here would be much appreciated.
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