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From: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net>
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Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable
 (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)
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The following reply was made to PR i386/86880; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo@dgeos.net>
To: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  markhannon@optusnet.com.au, 
 Yuri Shemanin <yuri@neva.ru>,
 Davide Giacca <dave@davethewave.it>,  freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable
 (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset)
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:13:39 +0100

 >>>I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and
 >>>6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006).
 >>>booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but
 >>>doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet.
 >>>Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then hang)
 > 
 > I've experienced this myself. Happens w/ nForce-based mobos and
 > certain shuttles. My fix has to always set the BIOS setting of the HD
 > to LBA instead of Auto or CHS.
 > 
 > Try this and report back ;-)
 > 
 Tried this unsuccessfully, but fixing cpu freq to 100Mhz (instead of
 133Mhz) seems to work...
 
 I've read something about disabling firewire in the bios, but I have it
 on a separate card (not in the MB), and I can't remove it for the moment...
 
 I'm not kernel developper, but I may try patches or ?
 
 Geoffroy.