From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 17:02:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48834106567B for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:02:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19C98FC18 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:02:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [192.168.1.117]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6454803; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:01:52 +0100 Message-ID: <49107FF1.1080900@kukulies.org> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:01:37 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julien Cigar References: <49106440.4010906@kukulies.org> <1225813899.2734.1.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <49107A75.9020500@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <49107A75.9020500@kukulies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1-BETA2 installation on ASUS P4S8X fails BIG MEDIUM ERROR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:02:09 -0000 Christoph Kukulies schrieb: > Julien Cigar schrieb: >> I've this problem too on almost all my machines. The only solution I've >> found is to disable DMA (atapi_dma), but then performances are very poor >> > > What I've found is enable/disable IDE Master in the BIOS settings. I > disabled it to no avail. > Just bought a SATA CD/DVD burner hoping to get along with this. > Pitfall - SATA CDROM drive is not seen by the BIOS so I cannot boot from it or is there a way to get around this? Any other method to boot from? This motherboard isn't one of the newest, in contrary, quite old. Doesn't seem to support boot from USB device, so I depend on getting the system booted from CDROM. -- Christoph Kukulies > -- > Christoph Kukulies >> (and I'm still unable to burn a CD/DVD) >> >> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 16:03 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> don't know whether it's the CDROM drive (a Creative 52x mx) or the >>> motherboard (ASUS P4S8X) or what. >>> Anyway, I tried to install a recent version of FreeBSD (7.1-BETA2) >>> and the installation >>> hangs right in the boot process of the installation CD disc1. >>> >>> I see >>> >>> acd0: FAILURE - READ BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x00 >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for >>> xpt_config >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for >>> xpt_config >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for >>> xpt_config >>> >>> and so on. >>> >>> Any clues? >>> >>> -- >>> Christoph Kukulies