From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 01:12:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5986D16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EBD43D39 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicolas.gafgo@bredband.net) Received: from bredband.net ([213.113.37.40] [213.113.37.40]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040120091255.FAM5111.mxfep02.bredband.com@bredband.net>; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:12:55 +0100 Message-ID: <400B9F9E.90101@bredband.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:13:02 +0100 From: Gafgo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew Seaman doublef@tele-kom.ru" References: <400B18A1.3050104@bredband.net> <20040120085925.GA44545@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040120085925.GA44545@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:12:58 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: > > >>Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. >>I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to >>practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and >>wanted to install 4.9 for real. But during boot up this happened: >>ad0: REAL command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting >>ata0: resetting devices... >>and there it hangs. When I tried 5.1 I had no problem. Could it be a >>hardware problem?? >> >> > >It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported >under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- >caveats about "early adopters" notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is >turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was >mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it >isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very >well. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > Thank you both for your help. IŽll go for 5.2.