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Date:      Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:31:12 +0400
From:      Stanislav Sedov <stas@core.310.ru>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Beta #3 - IDE Problems? (Intel / ICH6 based laptop)
Message-ID:  <20050905153112.GA9283@core.310.ru>
In-Reply-To: <BE30630B8AC93FF753A36FCC@thebrick.dmpriest.net.uk>
References:  <BE30630B8AC93FF753A36FCC@thebrick.dmpriest.net.uk>

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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:41:00PM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I recently tried to boot the FreeBSD 6.0 Beta #3 on my laptop, and ran into 
> a problem.
> 
> The hard drive controller probes as:
> 
> "
> atapci0: <Intel ICH6 SATA150 contoller> port 
> 0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 17 at device 31.2 on 
> pci0
> ...
> ad0: 57231MB <HTS726060M9AT100/MH40A6EA> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master 
> UDMA100
> "
> 
> But I then get the following spewed out:
> 
> "
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> 
> LBA=11721023
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=0
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> 
> LBA=11721022
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=1
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> 
> LBA=11721023
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=0
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> 
> LBA=11721017
> "
> 
> Sysinstall cautions me that the Geometry for the drive is unlikely, and 
> that it's using a more sensible one (it displays 7296/255/63, with 
> 117210240 blocks).
> 
> The drive itself is partitioned already (with a WinXP partition, and a 
> FreeBSD slice, from an older 5.x install) - however, sysinstall claims it 
> can't see any of that and the drive is all unused.
> 
> The laptop itself is a Dell XPS Gen 2.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Karl
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> 

Try to disable ACPI - it can helps. There may be some problems with ACPI
on your laptop - BIOS update sometime helps. But first try to disable ACPI
during FreeBSD boot.



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