On Sunday 24 February 2013 14:33:06 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I have a somewhat eclectic system, currently running (or at any rate, > trying to run) 9.1-RELEASE. The system in question contains three > drives, to wit: > > <WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 05.01D05> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device > <ST3500320AS SD1A> ATA-8 SATA 1.x device > <Hitachi HTS541010A9E680 JA0OA480> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device > > Previously, I had the ST3500320AS in this system, along with one other > entirely different Seagate drive, i.e. one not shown in the list above. > (Also, I was previously running 8.3-RELEASE and only recently updated > to 9.1-RELEASE.) > > Since I reconfigured the system to its current state, i.e. with the set > of three drives listed above, whenever I reboot the system, about 50% > of the time, when the boot process gets down to the point where it > would ordinarily be printing out the messages relating to ada0, ada1, > etc. suddenly I start to get a massive and apparently endless stream > of error messages, apparently relating to one of the drives listed > above, but the stream actually alternates between two consecutive > error messages, both undoubtedly related to each other. >
Does your HDD controller is SATA 3? I had a similar problem (some times could not boot) and was caused because my HDD controller is SATA 1 Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller And my hard disk is SATA 2 WDC WD2500AVVS-00L2B0 01.03A01 The problem disapear when I lock the HDD at 150 MB/s (jumper settings the HDD to SATA 1) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"