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To: Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: 4.9 ATA hangs with 2 ata drives
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At 00:22 +0000 12/02/2003, Lee Harr wrote:
>>I've got both 4.9 and 5.1 loaded on my new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
>>with two 160Gb disks on the primary ATA controller.
>>
>
>>it hangs during kernel boot after the
>>message:
>>
>>ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
>>ata0: resetting devices
>>
>
>Yup. I have the same thing.
>
>What I do is go in to the BIOS and set the slave drive
>from "Auto" to "None" when I want to boot from the first
>drive, and switch it back when I want to boot from the
>second drive. Kind of a pain, but it works...

Thanks - good idea.  I have the drives in removable racks,
so I've been unplugging ad1 when I want to boot 4.9. 

>
>I think it's just symptomatic of the nforce2 chipset which
>is only partially supported due to nvidia's refusal or
>inability to release proper specs.

There was a post about sending email to ASUS and/or NVidia
to encourage them to share with the community.  I'm ready. 
Now if I can only find that link/message again... (;-)

tks
j