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Date:      Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:50:22 -0800
From:      Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>
To:        "Yavuz Maslak" <maslak@ihlas.net.tr>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: disk problem
Message-ID:  <6.2.3.4.2.20051130014832.057ba970@cobalt.antimatter.net>
In-Reply-To: <048301c5f590$5eaefff0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>
References:  <048301c5f590$5eaefff0$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>

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At 01:28 AM 11/30/2005, Yavuz Maslak wrote:
>Hello
>
>I wanted to install freeBSD6.0 on my machine. formerly windows2000 
>was running on it. But I could not install freebsd. Because it gave 
>an error about harddisk.
>
>My harddisk is Western Digital WD400  40Gbyte capacity.
>
>I got the error message on the screen as below
>
>ATA0_MASTER : FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY TIME OUT
>
>What shall I do ?

Is your drive jumpered correctly?  You will get that error if you 
have a drive jumpered as "slave" when there is no "master".

-Glenn









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