From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 18 14: 1:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lorne.arm.org (64-40-71-66.mebtel.net [64.40.71.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF16837B401 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:01:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dlt@localhost) by lorne.arm.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1ILrfh89935; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:53:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dlt@mebtel.net) X-Authentication-Warning: lorne.arm.org: dlt set sender to dlt@mebtel.net using -f To: "Alexey V. Neyman" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asus A7V133 References: <200102180955.f1I9tAt08945@ns.any.ru> From: Derek Tattersall Date: 18 Feb 2001 16:53:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200102180955.f1I9tAt08945@ns.any.ru> Message-ID: <86bsrzk68q.fsf@lorne.arm.org> Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Alexey V. Neyman" writes: > hello there! > > [ in case of answers from questions@, please, keep cc'ing me ] > > I tried to install FreeBSD 4.2-R on a > Asus A7V133/Athlon Thunderbird 850MHz/Fujitsu MPE3136AH (udma/66), > and noticed the following: > the system installs and runs smoothly, when the hard disk is attached to > secondary (Promise UDMA100/RAID0) controller. When it's at primary > controller, it detects disk properly. But when it tries to write partition > data on it, it makes some tries like: > ad0: WRITE timeout tag=0 > ata0: resetting devices .. done > and then panics with message `going nowhere without my init'. > > Seems that new Asus A7V133 has broken primary IDE controller. Have anybody > met with something like this? > > FYI: 3.5.1-R bootable CD does not boot at all - it dumps registers and > halts system. > FYI2: Windows ME installs and operates even when disk is installed as > primary master. Maybe it just silently downgrades from udma/66 to > something lower? > > # Alexey I have a similar setup: ASUS A7V 1Ghz Athlon IBM ultrastor IDE hard drive, and I had no problems whatsoever with the drive installed on either controller. I also installed Red Hat 7 on the primary controller, as it did not support the UDMA 66 controller. I now have 4.2 Stable and Red Hat Public Beta installed on the drive connected to the Promise controller. Sounds to me like something is a little strange with your hard drive or the BIOS setup. -- Derek Tattersall dlt@mebtel.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message