Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:38:11 -0500 From: "Mark Johnston" <mark.johnston@home.com> To: "Conrad Sabatier" <conrads@home.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE installation: can't see my hard drive Message-ID: <006301bfbb0b$187023e0$79646c18@burows1.mb.wave.home.com> References: <XFMail.000510202622.conrads@home.com>
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From: "Conrad Sabatier" <conrads@home.com> To: "Mark Johnston" <mark.johnston@home.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:26 PM > > On 10-May-00 Mark Johnston wrote: > > I'm having trouble installing 4.0-RELEASE - I get through the bootup and > > kernel setup, but the "Probing..." screen hangs for about 10-15 minutes. > > The installation screen comes up after that, but when I try to start > > setup, > > it tells me that no hard drives are found. The kernel options I have > > enabled are: (long info cut) > > The debug console shows some > > errors about timeouts waiting to send commands to ata0-master and read > > timeouts on ad0 - it also says that the device has disappeared. > > > > This system has run Win95 and Linux, and both found the hard drive > > without any trouble - I've also booted the OpenBSD install floppy, > > which found the HD OK. Where am I going wrong? > > Sorry, not an answer, just a "me too" here. > > I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from CD on a friend's machine and saw > pretty much the same behavior. Try as we might, we just could not figure > out a workaround. Baffling, really. > Hmm.. do you know what kind of onboard IDE he has? I've done some checking around, trying to figure out the problem, and noticed that my IDE controller - a SiS 5513 - was shown in OpenBSD's dev logs as having had its support "recently fixed". I'm not sure if this means something in terms of FreeBSD's support for it, but I also noticed that while booting Linux, the system says "not 100% native mode, DMA disabled." I'm thinking that FBSD may not know that DMA may cause problems and might use it anyway - I'm going to make my BIOS settings really conservative, maybe rearrange my drives or disconnect the CD-ROM. I think it's safe to rule out oft-blamed Cyrix in the problem - I'm using an Intel P166. If you happen to have a spare IDE controller card, I'd be much obliged if you could try booting your friend's system with the drives on it under the FreeBSD boot disk. I may also try to pick up a cheap card later this week - in any case, I'll summarize to the list and send in a bug report if I come up with a working solution. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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