From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 16:30:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 A48B516A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:30:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A21743D5A for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: from sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (xdm [129.215.144.53]) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA23796 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:30:13 GMT Received: (from richard@localhost) by sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id AAA23035 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:30:13 GMT Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:30:13 GMT Message-Id: <200312230030.AAA23035@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Organization: just say no Subject: ATA problem installing on Vaio X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:30:17 -0000 I tried to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a Sony Vaio PCG-TR1MP. It hangs during boot (requiring a power-cycle) after printing: ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded pccard: card inserted, slot 0 ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0 resetting devices .. I found several references to similar problems, but no solution. The same happens with the 4.8 install CD. -- Richard