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Date:      Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:50:21 +0100
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@core.310.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Beta #3 - IDE Problems? (Intel / ICH6 based laptop)
Message-ID:  <C2CEA2CBA5024B7015D54B37@thebrick.dmpriest.net.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20050905153112.GA9283@core.310.ru>
References:  <BE30630B8AC93FF753A36FCC@thebrick.dmpriest.net.uk> <20050905153112.GA9283@core.310.ru>

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--On 05 September 2005 19:31 +0400 Stanislav Sedov <stas@core.310.ru> wrote:

> Try to disable ACPI - it can helps. There may be some problems with ACPI
> on your laptop - BIOS update sometime helps. But first try to disable ACPI
> during FreeBSD boot.

Latest BIOS on the machine already (apparently published sometime in 
August, '05) - No difference at all with ACPI disabled, apart from one PNP 
warning [which is understandable] and appeared to be something to do with 
the onboard sound.

-Karl

ps. When I said 'slice' in my earlier post, I meant partition - the hard 
drive has a WinXP partition, and a FreeBSD partition with the various 
slices on it, which Sysinstall doesn't see at all at installation time (in 
case anyone was rolling eyes <g>)...







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